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Review of Carrie Pilby (2017)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Sep 2016

Thankfully Johnson got someone like Powley to take on the central role because it’s through her honesty that we allow the rest to be somewhat…

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Review of Barry (2016)

By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Sep 2016

Whereas the aforementioned Southside With You was a calm, romantic watch, this is a serious and refined drama which has the feel of a political…

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Review of The Secret Scripture (2017)

By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Sep 2016

The plot structure is convoluted and all-too familiar, leaving almost no trace of originality or curiosity at the table…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Sep 2016

If George set his sights on capturing the effects of this tragic stain in history rather than love-making, we might have gotten a drama worthy…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Sep 2016

If George set his sights on capturing the effects of this tragic stain in history rather than love-making, we might have gotten a drama worthy…

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Review of Mystery Road (2013)

By Giovanni Marchini Camia (57) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Sep 2016

An extraordinarily rich, initially exasperating, yet eventually marvelous postmodern epic…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Sep 2016

If George set his sights on capturing the effects of this tragic stain in history rather than love-making, we might have gotten a drama worthy…

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Review of The Woman Who Left (2016)

By Ethan Vestby (87) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Sep 2016

Highlighted by the black-and-white, The Woman Who Left is as nocturnal as the best noir, one of those films in which every transition from…

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Review of Their Finest (2017)

By Daniel Schindel (90) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Sep 2016

The movie makes a game attempt to resonate as something stronger than a typical period romance, wringing its wartime setting for all the pathos…

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Review of Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (2016)

By Ethan Vestby (87) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Sep 2016

It’s hard not to detect the film as a for-hire work from Demme, perhaps just because its subject seems so in-control — not so much in the…

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Review of LBJ (2017)

By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Sep 2016

[Reiner] has a central performance to back him up, but fails to register many of the most compelling aspects of President Johnson's history…

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Review of Mr. Church (2016)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Sep 2016

No matter how effective Murphy (great in his first film role in four years) or Robertson is, the fact they are driven by external forces rather…

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Review of The Church (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Sep 2016

No matter how effective Murphy (great in his first film role in four years) or Robertson is, the fact they are driven by external forces rather…

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Review of Una (2017)

By Christopher Schobert (126) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Sep 2016

For Rooney Mara, it’s a new high, giving a performance that can only be described as extraordinary, and she makes Una a sharp, discomforting…

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Review of Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

By Conor O'donnell (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Sep 2016

In spite of its slightly excessive runtime and a handful of millennial-pandering beats, Bridget Jones’s Baby is brought to term by the buckets…

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Review of Jackie (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Sep 2016

This is remarkable stuff from a director on the cusp of the mainstream. You sense an American filmmaker might not have managed it…

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Review of Deepwater Horizon (2016)

By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 Sep 2016

Deepwater Horizon reminds us just how talented an action director Berg is and how often substance becomes a second thought for the director…

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Review of The Vessel (2016)

By Brian Roan (43) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 Sep 2016

As powerfully felt and gorgeously realized as anything one may see on screen this year…

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Review of Kicks (2016)

By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 Sep 2016

Tipping is a fresh voice who has already established a great sense of atmosphere, and more importantly, he’s shown that he can tell stories…

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Review of Past Life (2016)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 13 Sep 2016

Past Life gets us thinking about so many possible scenarios only to supply an optimism that seemed incongruous to the pessimistic journey…

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