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Review of Instant Family (2018)

By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Nov 2018

Instant Family balances its sitcom tone with some real, unexpected heart…

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Review of Shoah: Four Sisters (2018)

By Lawrence Garcia (34) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Nov 2018

Perhaps Four Sisters is best considered a parting gesture from Lanzmann, ensuring that, in his body of work at least, these four “sisters”…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Nov 2018

Harry Potter, for all his nice-kid incorruptibility, looks downright four-dimensional compared to Redmayne’s milquetoast Newt—an impossibly…

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Review of The Front Runner (2018)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Nov 2018

It’s a feature-length whine of frustrated entitlement. A movie less suited to its cultural moment would be hard to imagine…

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Review of Nobody's Fool (2018)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Nov 2018

When his zany cast of characters (many but not all played by Perry himself) takes leave of his material, as in Nobody’s Fool, his movie’s…

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Review of Bodied (2018)

By April Wolfe (199) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Nov 2018

Simultaneously entertaining, overwhelming, compelling, and grating, Bodied raises its hand and talks until words mean nothing and everything…

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Review of The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Nov 2018

The Other Side Of The Wind is ultimately about an artist’s fear of seeing a reflection of his own sublimated desires — the way that art…

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Review of Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Oct 2018

Ultimately, the search here isn’t so much for Bergman as it is for a thesis and conclusion…

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Review of A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While (2018)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Oct 2018

For Wang, the strictly personal is the building block for everything else—whether it’s the well-worn groove of a long-term relationship…

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Review of A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold (2018)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Oct 2018

Despite Wang’s habit of casual stylistic quotation (riffing on Ingmar Bergman’s compressed close-ups here, Wes Anderson’s whip pans there),…

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Review of Shirkers (2018)

By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Oct 2018

The original Shirkers might be a product of a bygone era of pop culture, but its new nonfiction form scans as a second attempt to reach those…

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Review of Border (2018)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Oct 2018

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes Border…

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Review of Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Oct 2018

In the best scenes, the filmmakers make the case that Queen’s musical decisions grew out of the musicians’ restless inability to fit in…

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Review of Monrovia, Indiana (2018)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Oct 2018

Much of what Wiseman captures here is so resolutely ordinary that it threatens to cross the line into outright dull…

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Review of The Price of Everything (2018)

By Allison Shoemaker (83) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Oct 2018

The master stroke of The Price Of Everything is that it asks the viewer, in Cappellazzo’s words, to see the intricacies of the art world…

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Review of Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Oct 2018

Maintaining an audience’s sympathy for a character through their most fumbling, frustrating lows requires compassion and clarity of purpose,…

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Review of The Guilty (2018)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Oct 2018

It might not be the kind of movie that anyone needs to see twice, but its variations on the classic building blocks of suspense implicate our…

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Review of mid90s (2018)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Oct 2018

What Hill hasn’t yet mastered, despite considerable skill as a first-time filmmaker, is how to impose a narrative more quietly, especially…

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Review of Beautiful Boy (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Oct 2018

For as much as Van Groeningen may have pulled from both of his mirrored source materials, for as deep as Chalamet digs into his character’s…

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Review of The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)

By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Oct 2018

It’s just a shame that the edge-of-your-seat suspense negates The Kindergarten Teacher’s preceding psychological power…

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