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Review of Candyman (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 25 Aug 2021

By the end of this new Candyman, little personal investment remains for the audience, just a miasma of provocative thoughts failing to cohere…

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Review of Coda (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 18 Aug 2021

CODA is insightful and moving enough to be worth all the fuss…

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Review of Annette (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 18 Aug 2021

The movie is weird and wrenching, asking the viewer to find humanity within the unreal tale of a puppet child’s rise to fame…

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Review of CODA (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 18 Aug 2021

CODA is insightful and moving enough to be worth all the fuss…

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Review of The Suicide Squad (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 05 Aug 2021

The Suicide Squad is very funny, bleakly self-aware, and shockingly violent—a refreshing mix of familiar conventions and gory satire…

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Review of Pig (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 03 Aug 2021

Pig is a blend of absurd cooking melodrama, jokey revenge thriller, and allegory, and Cage is the connective tissue holding all those ridiculous…

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Review of Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 03 Aug 2021

So what if this movie essentially forgets to have a coherent plot or any real stakes; look at all of the exciting crossovers…

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Review of Stillwater (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 02 Aug 2021

Stillwater is a mainstream work that contradicts preconceived notions, and is all the more fascinating for it…

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Review of The Green Knight (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 02 Aug 2021

The Green Knight is most brilliant in its wordless sequences…

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Review of Old (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 02 Aug 2021

The central conceit of Old has so much juice, and Shyamalan gets to explore so many fun—if sadistic—avenues over the course of one very…

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Review of Nomadland (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 25 Feb 2021

Nomadland is a work of exploration, and not just across the sprawling American West…

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Review of Minari (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 25 Feb 2021

Minari is a tale that will feel familiar to many, but Chung grounds it in brilliant specificity…

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Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 11 Feb 2021

With Judas and the Black Messiah, King has made a thriller that speaks to history without feeling didactic, that keeps the audience in suspense…

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Review of The Little Things (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 28 Jan 2021

Even the most mundane moments in The Little Things aren’t enough to stifle Washington’s star power. Almost nothing is…

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Review of Locked Down (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 19 Jan 2021

While Locked Down is an undoubtedly fascinating pop-culture curio, it’s also sloppy and cringe-inducing, and feels like it was made in a hurry…

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Review of Locked Down (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 19 Jan 2021

While Locked Down is an undoubtedly fascinating pop-culture curio, it’s also sloppy and cringe-inducing, and feels like it was made in a hurry…

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Review of LOCKED DOWN (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 19 Jan 2021

While Locked Down is an undoubtedly fascinating pop-culture curio, it’s also sloppy and cringe-inducing, and feels like it was made in a hurry…

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Review of Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 23 Dec 2020

It’s a refreshingly silly and airy adventure focused on the emotions of one character, Wonder Woman (played by Gal Gadot), and a charming…

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Review of The Nest (2020)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 23 Dec 2020

The Nest is one of the best films of the year: Though it’s set in the past, it’s about the feeling of one’s own home turning against…

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Review of Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 23 Dec 2020

Howard’s film is nothing more than a sensational snapshot, one that feels even less authentic than many of the think pieces that followed…

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