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Review of Horse Girl (2020)

By Roxana Hadadi (336) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 05 Feb 2020

Horse Girl’s big weakness is that it can’t decide how much ambiguity to provide its central character, or how seriously it wants to present…

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Review of Gretel & Hansel (2020)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Jan 2020

If one of the boundaries being tested in this film is viewers’ patience, the reward for—to use a refrain repeated throughout the film—“trusting…

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Review of Miss Americana (2020)

By Josh Modell (41) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jan 2020

Whether this book is really open, and whether it reveals the “real” Taylor Swift or not, Miss Americana is convincing, positive, and entrancing…

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Review of Downhill (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jan 2020

If there’s a real draw to this bastardized variation, it’s Louis-Dreyfus…

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Review of The Night House (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jan 2020

Unfortunately, the script by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski is clunky—in the convoluted nature of its reveals and also in the sometimes-baffling…

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Review of The Rhythm Section (2020)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jan 2020

An always welcome presence, Law is the only cast member in The Rhythm Section to give the impression that he had any fun making the movie,…

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Review of Palm Springs (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jan 2020

It turns out to be something kind of special in its own right: a modern rom-com that’s funny and inventive and sweet and totally mainstream…

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Review of Black Bear (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jan 2020

Black Bear is the movie that proves, beyond any lingering doubt, that Aubrey Plaza has much more to offer than the best eye-roll in the business…

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Review of Summertime (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jan 2020

By its nature, the film is uneven—Estrada shares screenwriting duty with a whopping 25 poets, and as with any poetry slam, some performances…

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Review of Zola (2021)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Jan 2020

The performances are a hoot . . . . But the film has perspective problems that extend beyond the slightly queasy, half-comic depiction of sex work…

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Review of Promising Young Woman (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Jan 2020

Fennell complicates matters throughout, toying with our identification by pushing Cassie’s tactics into some uncomfortably nasty places,…

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Review of Wendy (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Jan 2020

It suggests that Zeitlin, throwing more handfuls of fairy dust over an impoverished American South, is something of a lost boy himself…

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Review of Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Jan 2020

Hittman isn’t really a polemicist…

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Review of The Assistant (2020)

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

The Assistant is more of a spartan procedural, its narrative a methodical accounting of one day—typical in incident, atypical in dawning…

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Review of The Assistant (2020)

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

The Assistant is more of a spartan procedural, its narrative a methodical accounting of one day—typical in incident, atypical in dawning…

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Review of Bad Hair (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Jan 2020

The impression is of a provocative logline that Simien never quite figured out how to expand into a satisfying movie; once you get the thrust…

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Review of The Last Full Measure (2020)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Jan 2020

Hagiography doesn’t magically becomes less tedious simply because its subject made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, however, and this…

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Review of The Turning (2020)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Jan 2020

In a movie as utterly lost as The Turning, everything from the performances to the production design to the music cues amount to one big pile…

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Review of The Gentlemen (2020)

By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Jan 2020

Too often, The Gentlemen creaks through the motions of Ritchie’s patented vision, absent the spark necessary to bring his fast-paced action…

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Review of A Fall from Grace (2020)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Jan 2020

It’s a five-day toss-off that’s simultaneously an impressive feat and business as usual…

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