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Review of Crisis (2021)

By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 25 Feb 2021

There is an honest bleakness to Jarecki’s tale that certainly matches the tragedy of the real-life opioid crisis, though all of it feels…

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Review of Crisis (2021)

By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 25 Feb 2021

There is an honest bleakness to Jarecki’s tale that certainly matches the tragedy of the real-life opioid crisis, though all of it feels…

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Review of Crisis (2021)

By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 25 Feb 2021

There is an honest bleakness to Jarecki’s tale that certainly matches the tragedy of the real-life opioid crisis, though all of it feels…

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Review of The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 25 Feb 2021

What the film does have is Andra Day, whose blisteringly raw central performance as the heroin-addicted musician brings a dynamic charge to…

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Review of Test Pattern (2021)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 Feb 2021

Taking the title into consideration, Test Pattern remains clearly focused on the circumstances outside of our control that force adjustments…

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Review of Silk Road (2021)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 Feb 2021

At the end of the day this is a hollowly reductive account of what happened with a weird subtextual rich punk against blue collar cop agenda…

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Review of The Mauritanian (2021)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Feb 2021

The film gives seasoned actors like Foster and Cumberbatch just enough room to flex some scene-chomping muscle, while relegating poor Shailene…

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Review of Flora & Ulysses (2021)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Feb 2021

That DiCamillo’s original was so funny, weird, and poignant should have been reason enough to hew closer to its brilliance instead of using…

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Review of Sator (2019)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Feb 2021

Everything has a purpose, from the deer whistle to a clearing of bleached white skulls, as modern medicine diagnoses that which our minds can…

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Review of Show Me What You Got (2021)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 11 Feb 2021

Cvetko isn’t therefore interested in mining what it means for these three to get together. That they join is inevitable…

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Review of Cowboys (2020)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 11 Feb 2021

Everyone on-screen holds fear in their hearts because they think the complexity of the situation is beyond their means…

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Review of The Wanting Mare (2021)

By Jake Kring-Schreifels (40) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 04 Feb 2021

The Wanting Mare is a soft and silent seduction, an alluring yet unfulfilling poetic fable that leaves you wanting more…

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Review of We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022)

By Matt Cipolla (30) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 03 Feb 2021

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair isn’t an exposé on internet culture or social media…

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Review of Wild Indian (2021)

By David Katz (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 03 Feb 2021

Wild Indian is a bold, anger-wreaked character study, creating a deeply unsympathetic antihero who nevertheless inspires some pity and understanding…

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Review of Hive (2021)

By Orla Smith (19) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 03 Feb 2021

Despite Gashi’s strong, stoic performance, it feels like the film is more interested in inspiring its audience than it is in gleaning insight…

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Review of Misha and the Wolves (2021)

By Christopher Schobert (126) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Feb 2021

The film is a slick affair––a little too slick…

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Review of Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Feb 2021

The actual experience of watching this gonzo dystopian samurai western is far from the shock-a-minute journey that one would expect, but even…

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Review of El Planeta (2021)

By Matt Cipolla (30) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Feb 2021

As a fully-fledged statement, El Planeta wavers about as much as it succeeds…

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Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Feb 2021

Despite a few missteps including its ambiguous treatment of female comrades in the film’s first two acts––including Hampton’s all-too-brief…

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Review of PVT Chat (2021)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Feb 2021

The stakes built from and acted upon Jack and Scarlet’s tenuous relationship are simply rendered empty once love seemingly erases their existence…

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