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Review of How to Build a Girl (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 May 2020

Feldstein is as contagiously ebullient as always in the role, and her English accent is mostly passable, although it breaks down at times during…

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Review of Valley Girl (2020)

By Gwen Ihnat (16) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 May 2020

Despite the occasional one-liner that lands and the commitment of a game cast, this Valley Girl’s charms are blotted out by its noisy neon…

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Review of Spaceship Earth (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 May 2020

Spaceship Earth mostly skims over both the findings and the failings, and neglects a lot of the logistics—understandable omissions for a…

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Review of Arkansas (2020)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 May 2020

While Arkansas is a promising and often very entertaining first feature, Duke doesn’t combine these borrowed ingredients—excellent though…

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Review of The Wretched (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 May 2020

A potboiler that doesn’t break any molds or reinvent any wheels…

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Review of All Day and a Night (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Apr 2020

Cole had a key part in one of the biggest game-changers in Black cinema this decade: a co-writing credit on Black Panther…

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Review of The Half of It (2020)

By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Apr 2020

Although The Half Of It mostly sticks to what’s swiftly becoming the Netflix teen rom-com house style (moody amber lighting, Wes Anderson-inspired…

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Review of Beastie Boys Story (2020)

By Erik Adams (14) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Apr 2020

It’s all there in the outtakes: The Beastie Boys story is simply too big, too strange, too unwieldy for Beastie Boys Story to contain it…

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Review of Extraction (2020)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Apr 2020

Add a script that would have seemed derivative even in the early ’90s, and you begin to get a sense of the kind of undigested pastiche that…

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Review of The American Friend (1977)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Apr 2020

Adapting Ripley's Game, the third of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels, 1977's The American Friend knits Wenders' ongoing concerns into a…

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Review of Selah and the Spades (2019)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Apr 2020

If you took Harry Potter, put it in a paper bag with The Wire, and shook it vigorously, you’d get the basic idea behind Selah And The Spades…

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Review of The Quarry (2020)

By Beatrice Loayza (94) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Apr 2020

This muddled slow-burn tragedy — adapted from the Damon Galgut novel of the same name — is unfocused and overly familiar…

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Review of Love Wedding Repeat (2020)

By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Apr 2020

The film’s desire to lampoon its rom-com cake and eat it too leaves it on an uncomfortable middle ground; a third act shift toward emotional…

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Review of Trolls World Tour (2020)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Apr 2020

In Trolls and the new Trolls World Tour, celebrity voices, high energy levels, nonsensical catchphrases, cross-promotional branding, cover-heavy…

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Review of Tigertail (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Apr 2020

Where the film stands out from other dramas of its type is in its poignant exploration of the little-discussed emotional consequences of single-mindedly…

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Review of Sea Fever (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Apr 2020

Despite some overly literal tributes to the films that inspired it (namely Alien, Jaws, and The Thing), Sea Fever’s vision of humanity’s…

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Review of Sea Fever (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Apr 2020

It’s well-acted and reasonably intelligent, but also derivative enough to compare unfavorably to plenty of stone-cold classics…

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Review of The Other Lamb (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Apr 2020

Set in some indeterminate time and place rarely betrayed by modern technology or dress, The Other Lamb mostly operates in the realm of allegory…

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Review of Coffee & Kareem (2020)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Apr 2020

Bad plotting would be relegated to the realm of incidental if Coffee & Kareem were funnier—isn’t that always the way…

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Review of Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Mar 2020

Fitting for a film backed by the groovy sounds of the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan, the biggest myth Crip Camp is out to bust is that disabled…

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