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Review of Kandahar (2023)

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

What [Waugh] delivers is precisely what fans are likely looking for, albeit in a package that’s more politically muddled than is necessary…

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Review of Sanctuary (2023)

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

There’s no way to get a total read on what Qualley’s protagonist is up to, which turns out to be the primary thrill of this snapshot of…

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Review of Reality (2023)

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

Though its real-life story ultimately proves a little too one-note, it makes up for its thinness with a powerhouse lead turn from Sydney Sweeney…

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Review of White Men Can't Jump (2023)

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

Director Calmatic sanitizes every aspect of his source material until the entire thing looks, sounds and feels like a Disney sitcom…

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Review of Bama Rush (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 17 May 2023

What it reveals is an exclusionary environment that views beauty, wealth, privilege, and conformity as the highest of ideals—and which seems,…

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Review of Fast X (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 17 May 2023

There’s plenty of preposterousness to be found in this sequel, which barely revs to life when indulging in automotive mayhem and outright…

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Review of Fool's Paradise (2023)

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

A satire that’s neither sharp enough to make its industry skewering sting, nor sweet enough to compensate for its toothlessness…

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Review of Hypnotic (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 10 May 2023

A B-movie with a C+ premise and D-minus execution, the last of which largely falls at the feet of director Robert Rodriguez…

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Review of Sisu (2023)

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

Helander’s latest tells its story with compact concision, even as it also indulges in great gooey gobs of over-the-top mayhem…

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Review of Peter Pan & Wendy (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 28 Apr 2023

Infused with bounding energy but little meaningful invention, it climbs to only modest heights, weighed down by its inability to add much to…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 28 Apr 2023

A first-rate rebound from the relatively underwhelming Vol…

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Review of Polite Society (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 24 Apr 2023

Celebrates feminist independence and rage, even as it embraces the conventions of its many cinematic and pop culture influences…

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Review of Carmen (2023)

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

Capturing the pulse-pounding emotional whirlwind of its source material (and its characters), it’s a florid reimagining that’s at once…

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Review of Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)

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

A sober military thriller that excoriates Joe Biden’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan in 2021 and, in the process, to strand the thousands…

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Review of Ghosted (2023)

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

Featuring not a single convincing element or exchange, this fiasco plays like a wannabe-Knight and Day exercise in eliciting annoyed reactions…

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Review of Evil Dead Rise (2023)

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

Evil Dead Rises is confirmation that—like so many that have come before it—Raimi’s legendary horror saga has run out of steam, continuing…

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Review of Renfield (2023)

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

[Cage] is the prince of pretentious darkness, and the saving grace of this otherwise slapdash variation on the Bram Stoker legend…

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Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 10 Apr 2023

A true American original, and proof that, while the hype surrounding [Aster] may have been early, it wasn’t wrong…

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Review of Air (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 04 Apr 2023

A rousing underdog saga that—like Ben Affleck’s prior directorial efforts Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and Argo—has the type of snappy energy…

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Review of Air (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 04 Apr 2023

A rousing underdog saga that—like Ben Affleck’s prior directorial efforts Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and Argo—has the type of snappy energy…

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