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Review of Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 25 Oct 2019

Dark Fate will likely feel like a blessing for Terminator diehards, a reboot that taps into what made the original films special and smooths…

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Review of Frankie (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 25 Oct 2019

All of these actors deliver the kind of subtle work that’s rarely seen in major Hollywood movies…

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Review of Jesus Is King (2019)

By Spencer Kornhaber (3) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 25 Oct 2019

It reminded me that religion and pop and fascism each revels in uniforms and shared, shouted praise. But it didn’t make me feel all that much…

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Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 20 Oct 2019

It’s funny, high-spirited, and giddily loopy, a descent into madness told with the energy of a sea shanty…

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Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 20 Oct 2019

It’s funny, high-spirited, and giddily loopy, a descent into madness told with the energy of a sea shanty…

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Review of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 17 Oct 2019

This is a movie chock-full of heady imagery that it can’t get a handle on, and so the allegories at work don’t quite connect…

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Review of The King (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 17 Oct 2019

To quote another of the Bard’s royal characters, it ends up feeling like a tale full of sound and fury, signifying nothing…

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Review of Jojo Rabbit (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 17 Oct 2019

Jojo Rabbit’s script isn’t emotionally complex enough to address the cruel realism of its world, and as the bleakness continues, the jokes…

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Review of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)

By Shirley Li (36) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 11 Oct 2019

The film is a visceral, ruminative, and emotionally satisfying epilogue in which the broken Jesse reconciles with his past and searches for…

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Review of Parasite (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 10 Oct 2019

Few filmmakers can manage such a dizzying blend of tones, but for Bong, one of South Korea’s finest directors, it’s a trademark…

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Review of Gemini Man (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 09 Oct 2019

Lee is innovating and looking backwards at the same time, and the viewing experience is as bewildering as that sounds…

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Review of Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 04 Oct 2019

It’s most exciting to watch as a reminder of just how good Murphy can be when he’s committed to his material…

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Review of Joker (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 02 Oct 2019

As Joker gets grimmer and descends further into bloody violence, it becomes little more than a horror show, bludgeoning its viewers out of…

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Review of Monos (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 26 Sep 2019

Monos is an undeniable wonder, but one that enchants the most when its head is in the clouds…

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Review of Ad Astra (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 18 Sep 2019

The lesson of the film is a straightforward one—that in the future, people will still need to rely on each other—but Ad Astra communicates…

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Review of The Goldfinch (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 12 Sep 2019

The film suffers from both an excessive faithfulness to its source and a general failure to translate that material into anything close to…

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Review of Hustlers (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 11 Sep 2019

Hustlers would work as a goofy comedy; it works even better as a thoughtful one, crammed with killer lines and supporting work from both acting…

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Review of It Chapter Two (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 03 Sep 2019

The length of It Chapter Two is matched by the scale of Pennywise’s big scares, assisted by the slickest visual effects money can buy, but…

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Review of Ready or Not (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 22 Aug 2019

The real fun in Ready or Not comes from the ways it subverts its time-tested story, balancing wry commentary and straightforward horror in…

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Review of Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 19 Aug 2019

The cast is stacked, but the story is messy, and the pathos driving Bernadette’s disappearance (which, again, is easily solved) is underwritten…

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