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Review of Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Feb 2021

A film of fatally flawed heroes, oversized passions, nation-building, and, inevitably, violence, America follows its characters from childhood…

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Review of I Care a Lot (2021)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Feb 2021

I Care A Lot isn’t some brilliantly subversive social satire…

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Review of Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)

By Allison Shoemaker (83) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Feb 2021

None of the curious friction of its story, nor in its cast, results in any sort of frisson of excitement, dread, or even shock…

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Review of Willy's Wonderland (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Feb 2021

Willy’s Wonderland is a jokey elevator pitch in search of a movie…

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Review of Sator (2019)

By Anya Stanley (15) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Feb 2021

Sator is an effective exercise in what the horror genre does best, underscoring awful truths—in this case, dementia and generational trauma—by…

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Review of Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Feb 2021

This kitschy, weirdo movie has such a bizarre clarity of vision about what it wants to do that a few biffed jokes are almost part of its charm,…

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Review of The World to Come (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Feb 2021

Their attraction seems more intellectual than physical, which keeps the film’s romantic energy at a lukewarm simmer throughout…

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Review of To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)

By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Feb 2021

Though it doesn’t entirely recapture the lightning-in-a-bottle magic of the original, To All The Boys: Always And Forever is a worthy sendoff…

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Review of French Exit (2021)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Feb 2021

Jacobs manages this controlled chaos with a dexterity and brittle artificiality that’s quite distinct from all of his previous films…

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Review of The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Feb 2021

The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things wouldn’t fall anywhere near the bottom of a time-loop power ranking—it’s a divertingly fizzy bit of PG-13…

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Review of The Mauritanian (2021)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Feb 2021

It’s revealed that the evidence against Salahi, who admits only to training with the formerly CIA-backed Afghan mujahideen in an al-Qaeda…

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Review of Little Fish (2021)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Feb 2021

The lackluster Little Fish banks on the automatic pathos of its subject matter, unaware that such delicate material actually requires greater…

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Review of Dear Comrades! (2020)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Feb 2021

Critics are often accused of reviewing a filmmaker’s politics over the film…

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Review of Bliss (2021)

By Alex Saveliev (258) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Feb 2021

The convoluted movie feels like a bunch of grandiose ideas in search of a connecting thread…

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Review of Bliss (2021)

By Alex Saveliev (258) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Feb 2021

The convoluted movie feels like a bunch of grandiose ideas in search of a connecting thread…

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Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2021

Although Stanfield and Kaluuya offer up two compelling—and contrasting—performances, Judas And The Black Messiah is an ensemble piece with…

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Review of A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Jan 2021

A Glitch In The Matrix unfolds as a flood of exposition and conjecture, accompanied by a gaudy infotainment montage of video-game footage,…

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Review of Beginning (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jan 2021

Whether this challenging film is more than the sum of its formally inventive parts will depend on a viewer’s patience, as well as their tolerance…

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Review of Palmer (2021)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Jan 2021

The best thing that can be said about Palmer is that it’s innocuous: overlong and sentimental, but rarely annoying…

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Review of Supernova (2021)

By Shannon Miller (16) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Jan 2021

Macqueen approaches the messy reality of letting go with measured sorrow, unrestrained tenderness, and even moments of joy…

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