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Review of Watership Down (1978)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 23 Feb 2015

It's a work deeply enamored with its source material, and determined to do right by it, even if it means frightening kids, baffling parents,…

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Review of McFarland, USA (2015)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 23 Feb 2015

With its genuine interest in the immigrant experience and what it means to be an American, McFarland USA ekes out a victory in the margins,…

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Review of The DUFF (2015)

By Genevieve Koski (68) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 19 Feb 2015

For all its potential pitfalls, The DUFF manages to keep its head above water, thanks to Whitman, Amell, and a willingness to engage with teen-movie…

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Review of Wild Tales (2014)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 18 Feb 2015

There’s a good deal of the sick-and-twisted element of The ABCs Of Death here, but managed with better pacing, more maturity, and more room…

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Review of All the Wilderness (2014)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 18 Feb 2015

The stakes of All The Wilderness aren’t high, because Johnson never directs his attentions to the real issue at hand: James is ill, and gallivanting…

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Review of Digging Up the Marrow (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 18 Feb 2015

Ultimately, Digging Up The Marrow is more of an affectionate comedy than a horror movie, despite a third act that features some tense moments…

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Review of Accidental Love (2015)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 18 Feb 2015

Accidental Love isn’t very good—and might never have been very good, judging from the general air of desperation—but much of it is identifiably…

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Review of Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 18 Feb 2015

Though Kiss Me, Stupid has the structure and comic beats of a classic bedroom farce, it's an overwhelmingly cynical assessment of male jealousy…

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Review of Drunktown's Finest (2014)

By Tina Hassannia (118) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 18 Feb 2015

Drunktown’s Finest oscillates between servicing banal plot machinations and the beautiful, symbolic simplicity of the culture it’s representing…

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Review of Queen & Country (2015)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 17 Feb 2015

What Queen And Country has going for it that admirers of the original will appreciate—and that total novices can enjoy just as much—is…

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Review of Approaching the Elephant (2015)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 17 Feb 2015

Much of the observational brilliance of Approaching The Elephant comes from how closely form relates to content: Out of chaos comes order,…

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Review of White Rabbit (2015)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 Feb 2015

Perhaps it was deliberate strategy on the part of McCann and his screenwriter, Anthony Di Pietro, to neutralize the politics of a mass killing…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 Feb 2015

Choosing to ignore any conventional sense of drama, progression, or resolution is, in its way, a memorable choice…

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Review of Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 Feb 2015

In the end, despite its quirky twists on the genre, Wyrmwood is just another zombie flick, riffing on its predecessors and hoping that’ll…

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Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 Feb 2015

The film never entirely figures out what it wants to do with the myth of the superspy, but at least it has fun along the way…

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Review of Hits (2014)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 Feb 2015

Cross gathers a lot of narrative strands and elegantly knots them during a big, farcical climax…

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Review of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 11 Feb 2015

The Elkabetzes don’t need the audience to have any firsthand experience of what Viviane and Elisha are actually like at home…

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Review of Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2015)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 11 Feb 2015

Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus is the best kind of failure, impassioned and singular, but it’s a failure all the same— glacially paced, stiffly…

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Review of What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 11 Feb 2015

Unless this is an unusually great year for comedy, there will be few funnier or more quotable movies than What We Do In The Shadows…

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Review of The Rewrite (2014)

By Kate Erbland (681) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 11 Feb 2015

Grant specializes in bastards, but he makes them so charming that viewers can nearly forget, and even forgive, their consistently bad manners…

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