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Review of The Deepest Breath (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 18 Jul 2023

A story of courage, trust and tragedy, the last of which materializes in ways that are at once shattering and uplifting…

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Review of Bird Box Barcelona (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 12 Jul 2023

Thanks to a couple of novel twists, it manages to outpace its predecessor in tension and originality—if not quite reinvigorate the franchise…

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Review of Afire (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 11 Jul 2023

Another [Petzold] masterwork about characters who are trapped by internal and external circumstances from which they find it intensely difficult…

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Review of Insidious: The Red Door (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 07 Jul 2023

Its characters may be desperate to remember the things they’ve willfully suppressed, but as this dud confirms, some things are best left forgotten…

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Review of Joy Ride (2023)

By Fletcher Peters (1) for The Daily Beast (380) on 07 Jul 2023

Adele Lim’s romp fits in with the likes of Bridesmaids and Girls Trip—which is to say, underneath all the sex and raunchiness, there’s…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 05 Jul 2023

Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One isn’t quite as dynamic as McQuarrie’s preceding Fallout, but it’s not far off that standout’s…

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Review of Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 26 Jun 2023

Perhaps most surprising is that the portrait it presents is not of a tortured soul but of a man, and actor, who was comfortable in all the…

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Review of King of Clones (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 23 Jun 2023

A surface-level portrait about a scientific advancement that could change the world for the better or the worse, and a man who knows how to…

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Review of No Hard Feelings (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 21 Jun 2023

Exhibits a superficial interest in ribald revelry and yet, in most respects, neuters its wilder impulses…

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Review of Take Care of Maya (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 20 Jun 2023

This wrenching documentary—culminating with commentary from some of the 100 other families who contacted director Roosevelt with similar…

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Review of Elemental (2023)

By Allegra Frank (14) for The Daily Beast (380) on 15 Jun 2023

Although it doesn’t come close to reaching Nemo’s heights (very few films, animated or otherwise, can), Elemental neither needs nor tries…

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Review of Extraction 2 (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 15 Jun 2023

At its deadliest, it’s a feat of breathtaking cinematic showmanship on par with recent standouts The Villainess, Carter and John Wick 4—even…

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Review of The Blackening (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 15 Jun 2023

Would have no reason to exist if it didn’t constantly foreground the issue of race, and yet affords no pointed or amusing commentary on the subject…

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Review of Maggie Moore(s) (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 13 Jun 2023

[Hamm’s] charm—and a reunion with his 30 Rock co-star Tina Fey—can’t salvage a middling caper that’s critically low on comedic or…

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Review of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 09 Jun 2023

It’s the safe and simplistic course correction that—neutered of the very absurdist immensity that was this franchise’s calling card,…

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Review of Brooklyn 45 (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 08 Jun 2023

It delivers supernatural and Earthly suspense in a period-piece package whose wit and personality help overshadow its rougher bump-in-the-night…

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Review of You Hurt My Feelings (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 07 Jun 2023

Proves to be an ideal showcase for its lead—even if its light comedy is a bit too slight…

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Review of How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 06 Jun 2023

A work that proves hopelessly at odds with itself all the way to a conclusion that fizzles at the moment it should explode…

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Review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 31 May 2023

Setting a new benchmark for diverse, agile, breathtaking animation, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is as striking as non-live-action films come…

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Review of The Boogeyman (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 29 May 2023

Rob Savage’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1973 short story is as stereotypical as they come, so devoid of originality that the most pressing…

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