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Review of Honey Boy (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2019

This is actually a fairly conventional indie drama…

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Review of Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2019

Like so many expensive fantasies, Alita: Battle Angel feels burdened by dreams of a franchise that may never materialize…

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Review of The Lodge (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2019

An ambitious, expertly crafted, and admittedly kind of ludicrous horror movie…

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Review of Miss Bala (2019)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Jan 2019

It’s somehow both less explicit and more blandly lascivious than its nastier counterpart, equally skittish about exploitation and saying…

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Review of Cold Pursuit (2019)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jan 2019

One thing that does translate is Morland’s extremely dry, extremely dark sense of humor, which manifests at the bleakest moments of the story…

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Review of Arctic (2018)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jan 2019

If the bare-minimum characterizations at first feel like a refreshing alternative to the most modern survival film (think everything from 127…

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Review of High Flying Bird (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jan 2019

High Flying Bird turns out to be a kind of shaggy heist movie, with a grand design (and payout) that’s only fully clear in retrospect…

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Review of Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jan 2019

If there’s undeniable difficulty in Velvet Buzzsaw’s genre alchemy—its attempt to mix a caustic, half-comic portrait of the gallery set…

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Review of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Jan 2019

Underneath the expressive voice work, songs, in-jokes, and nonsense cameos, there is some thematic resonance to Lego Movie 2, not fully tapped…

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Review of Serenity (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Jan 2019

Though Serenity is blessed with a goofily enjoyable high concept, it doesn’t exploit it very effectively…

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Review of Mikey and Nicky (1976)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Jan 2019

Mikey & Nicky is sometimes dull and sometimes confusing—and it's both at once in the first 10 minutes, when Cassavetes is semi-comatose in…

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Review of Fyre (2019)

By Alex Mclevy (31) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Jan 2019

Fyre is the stronger, more worthwhile documentary, but its counterpart is a helpful reminder that, like so many stories, one account can’t…

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Review of The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (2019)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Jan 2019

Rather than defanging the story, sanding down The Standoff At Sparrow Creek’s political implications foregrounds its exceptional dialogue…

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Review of The Upside (2019)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Jan 2019

The rest is feel-good painted unenthusiastically by numbers: a repetitive series of artificially inflated character conflicts and tossed-off…

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Review of A Dog's Way Home (2019)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Jan 2019

This year’s entry into the winter animal-movie canon, A Dog’s Way Home, comes this close to just being a simple, cute animal movie, until…

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Review of Rust Creek (2019)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Jan 2019

Screenwriter Julie Lipson’s well-written, naturalistic dialogue helps pass the time, as does Michelle Lawler’s lovely scenic cinematography…

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Review of Escape Room (2019)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Jan 2019

The escape-room scenes themselves (a.k.a…

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Review of Holmes & Watson (2018)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Dec 2018

If there are any new jokes left to tell about Holmes, they’re nowhere to be found in the abysmal Holmes & Watson, which might be the worst…

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Review of Second Act (2018)

By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Dec 2018

Lopez gets a decent scene partner in Hudgens and an even better one in Leah Remini, who steals the movie as Maya’s brassy, no-nonsense best friend…

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Review of Stan & Ollie (2018)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Dec 2018

An opportunity to see John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan mimic two of early cinema’s most iconic figures, which is this film’s true raison d’être…

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