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Review of Quest (2017)

By Josh Modell (41) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Dec 2017

There’s enough material in these years to make for half a dozen more focused documentaries, but none could hope to be as heartbreaking and…

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Review of Phantom Thread (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Dec 2017

Anderson’s most diabolical trick is woven into the fabric of his style: He’s used perfectionist craft to celebrate the value of imperfection…

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Review of Quest (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Dec 2017

By the end of Quest, I felt melancholy about saying goodbye to the Raineys and sad that I wouldn’t know where their lives would go from here…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Dec 2017

A pile of muck (old muck, too) with no rake, Steven Spielberg’s National Board Of Review-approved Nixon-era newspaper drama The Post lacks…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Dec 2017

I, Tonya may be more of a pop-biographical exercise than a deep interrogation, but there’s a resonance to the synergy between its star and…

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Review of Meatballs (1979)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Dec 2017

The movie has a lumpy shape, and its jokes are often obvious and crude, but it’s a lot sweeter than the other raunchy comedies of the era…

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Review of Snake Eyes (1998)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Dec 2017

Snake Eyes can't sustain its masterful first hour, but it's better than just about any action movie this year…

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Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Nov 2017

Wonder Wheel is uncomfortably revealing, its real-life parallels too blatant to be anything but intentional. But to what end…

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Review of The Other Side of Hope (2017)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Nov 2017

In that respect, it may be self-conscious to a fault…

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Review of Loveless (2017)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Nov 2017

Leviathan (2014) pushed pitiless corruption into something like black comedy; Loveless is anything but funny, but does at least acknowledge…

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Review of Instinct (1999)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Nov 2017

A mushy-headed, unintentionally funny inspirational drama that plays like a clumsy attempt to crossbreed The Shawshank Redemption and One Flew…

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Review of Waydowntown (2002)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Nov 2017

Occasionally resembling an episode of Seinfeld taken to the big screen, waydowntown shares that show's ability to mine mundane details for…

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Review of White Oleander (2002)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Nov 2017

White Oleander goes through the paces with a little more dignity than usual, which is a mark of either director Peter Kosminsky's refusal to…

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Review of Eragon (2006)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Nov 2017

If Eragon proves anything, it's that not all dragons produce magic…

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Review of Friday After Next (2002)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Nov 2017

Marginally better than its predecessor, but only because Next Friday lowered standards so far that only a homemade cockfighting video would…

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Review of The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Nov 2017

Christmas has some good points going for it (e.g., Plummer’s grumpy, rascally Scrooge, who’d be great in a straight adaptation), but its…

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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Nov 2017

The potential for a tryst hangs heavily in the humid Mediterranean air; every look and line of dialogue drips with subtext…

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Review of Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Nov 2017

Frears has directed a surprisingly sturdy hybrid of thriller and social melodrama, even if the thrills turn ludicrous and the social critique…

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Review of The Missing (2003)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Nov 2017

Born to play a Western hero, Jones sells the film's syrupy message with a soulful, wounded performance, relieved at times by his agreeably…

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Review of State of Fear (2006)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Nov 2017

Builds to a key point about the consequences of democracies fighting terrorism by erasing its central tenets, but in doing so, it doesn't underplay…

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