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Review of Resistance (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Mar 2020

Resistance is like a maudlin Robin Williams vehicle inorganically fused with a by-the-numbers wartime thriller…

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Review of Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Mar 2020

Abortion stories are real, and they take place every day, often so quietly that no one but those closest to the people involved even know they’re…

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Review of Bloodshot (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Mar 2020

The real issue, though, isn’t that Bloodshot would fail an IQ test. It’s that its dumb fun isn’t executed with panache, smart or otherwise…

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Review of The Hunt (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Mar 2020

A movie that jumps on buzzwords like “canceled” like a hungry dog on a juicy steak, but never coalesces into a coherent statement about,…

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Review of The Hunt (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Mar 2020

A movie that jumps on buzzwords like “canceled” like a hungry dog on a juicy steak, but never coalesces into a coherent statement about,…

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Review of I Still Believe (2020)

By Allison Shoemaker (83) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Mar 2020

In attempting to tell the story of this young woman’s death — not her life, no time for that either — I Still Believe cheapens it…

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Review of The Hunt (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Mar 2020

A movie that jumps on buzzwords like “canceled” like a hungry dog on a juicy steak, but never coalesces into a coherent statement about,…

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Review of Big Time Adolescence (2020)

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

A debauched but heartfelt coming-of-age story about impressionable teenage boys and the imperfect male role models who influence them…

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Review of Lost Girls (2020)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Mar 2020

What’s both intriguing and frustrating about the screen version, however, is the way that it flirts with a much thornier and potentially…

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Review of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

By Oliver Sava (3) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Mar 2020

Mark Hamill nails every one liner the writers throw at him (I tried to get as many as I could in Stray Observations, but I’m sure I missed…

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Review of Spenser Confidential (2020)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Mar 2020

While the partnership between Wahlberg and actor-turned-director Peter Berg has produced a few duds since the success of Lone Survivor, none…

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Review of Swallow (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Mar 2020

Although it’s a reductive statement, calling Swallow a high-class version of My Strange Addiction isn’t entirely inaccurate…

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Review of The Way Back (2020)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Mar 2020

Between the known metatext and Affleck’s bone-deep commitment, this moving central performance largely purges the film of its high potential…

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Review of First Cow (2020)

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

Just don’t mistake the lightness of step for a softness of philosophy…

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Review of The Banker (2020)

By Lawrence Garcia (34) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Mar 2020

Just as it reduces Garrett’s character to a few tenacious traits, the film, in presenting his inspiring story, loses perspective on the broader…

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Review of The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Mar 2020

In short, this is fundamentally a movie of surface pleasures, placing gorgeous actors in an equally stunning location and letting them parry…

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Review of Saint Frances (2020)

By Beatrice Loayza (94) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Feb 2020

Saint Frances goes down easy…

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Review of Burden (2018)

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

Overly simplistic piece of Southern poverty porn, which asks questions it’s not really prepared to answer and proceeds from a set of dubious…

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Review of Greed (2020)

By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Feb 2020

Greed fails because it’s overstuffed with subplots and organized via a maddening time-hopping structure…

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Review of Greed (2019)

By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Feb 2020

Greed fails because it’s overstuffed with subplots and organized via a maddening time-hopping structure…

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