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Review of America: The Motion Picture (2021)

By William Hughes (3) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Jun 2021

Gory, horny, and at least visually bold, America is almost always fun to gawk at, even when the writing is letting it down…

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Review of The Forever Purge (2021)

By Anya Stanley (15) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Jun 2021

In The Forever Purge, we’re told a story that a battered nation has heard a lot—a sermon of immigration and class warfare that’s too…

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Review of Fear Street: 1994 (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Jun 2021

1994 channels that legacy of give and take, between teen horror of the page and screen, into a polished nostalgia object of secondhand thrills,…

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Review of Black Widow (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jun 2021

For all the work this spinoff puts into generating a traumatic origin story for its moonlighting superhero, it would be a stretch to say that…

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Review of No Sudden Move (2021)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jun 2021

Movies routinely place characters in desperate, life-or-death situations, but rarely do we see them behave in a genuinely desperate way…

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Review of Zola (2021)

By Shannon Miller (16) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jun 2021

Zola is first and foremost a zany, catastrophic road-trip dramedy, one that balances the whimsy of social media with the harrowing reality…

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Review of I Carry You with Me (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Jun 2021

Teaching the audience about the intricacies of the U.S…

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Review of The Ice Road (2021)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Jun 2021

Even at its dumbest, The Ice Road holds your attention; a climactic fight/chase scene even acknowledges that it’s hard to look badass on…

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Review of Werewolves Within (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Jun 2021

At least Ruben maintains his comic instincts and crack timing throughout…

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Review of Good on Paper (2021)

By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Jun 2021

Instead of translating a real-life experience into something enjoyably madcap, Good On Paper more often than not feels like a friend recounting…

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Review of Sun Children (2021)

By Roxana Hadadi (336) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Jun 2021

A tidal wave of compassion and empathy that crests into rage and sorrow—all of it provoked by the plight of Iran’s child laborers…

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Review of False Positive (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Jun 2021

Glazer and Lee both work primarily in comedy, but the commentary here is drier and more serious, producing knowing nods instead of outright laughter…

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Review of Gaia (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Jun 2021

Even when the story takes on biblical overtones, the melodrama never blossoms…

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Review of Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)

By Tatiana Tenreyro (1) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Jun 2021

The film is often unfocused, and—at a highly condensed 89 minutes—it makes only a cursory attempt to uncover aspects of this legend’s…

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Review of Fatherhood (2021)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Jun 2021

There could be something to say here about how comically low society’s expectations for fathers remain…

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Review of Luca (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Jun 2021

The generous read on Luca is that it has the sweet simplicity of a fairy tale, something that tired kids and the exhausted parents reading…

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Review of The Sparks Brothers (2021)

By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Jun 2021

If you’ve never heard of Sparks, the good news is that you’re the perfect viewer for Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers,…

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Review of 12 Mighty Orphans (2021)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Jun 2021

12 Mighty Orphans tells the true story of a Depression-era high school football team improbably formed at a Texas orphanage, but the screenplay…

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Review of Censor (2021)

By Jason Shawhan (7) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Jun 2021

Censor’s meticulous, insidious structure sticks to the subconscious; this is an auspicious debut in modern genre cinema…

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Review of Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Jun 2021

Uncharacteristically true to his word, Peter does less insufferable blathering this time around, but the subtitle The Runaway still threatens…

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