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Review of Brightburn (2019)

By Alycia Ripley (3) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 May 2019

Brutal and bludgeoning, David Yarovesky’s Brightburn is a film designed to knock the breath from your chest and subvert expectations…

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Review of Frankie (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 May 2019

Huppert is great at this, and of course she is. It’s elsewhere that the film falters…

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Review of Booksmart (2019)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 May 2019

It may begin with a scattered, cartoonish approach, but Booksmart eventually blooms into something entirely and beautifully its own…

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Review of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 May 2019

They don’t make ’em like they used to, Tarantino’s film seems to say, but nobody makes ’em like this, either…

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Review of Ophelia (2019)

By Daniel Schindel (90) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 May 2019

Even if the conceit is faulty, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible for this film to rework this material into an intelligent riff on the…

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Review of Little Joe (2019)

By Ed Frankl (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 May 2019

A sterile arthouse drama that rather muddles its conceit…

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Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 May 2019

Much like The Witch, there is something quite mesmerizing about the meticulousness in the period detail here and how Eggers so seems to revel in it…

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Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 May 2019

Much like The Witch, there is something quite mesmerizing about the meticulousness in the period detail here and how Eggers so seems to revel in it…

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Review of A Hidden Life (2019)

By Leonardo Goi (38) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 May 2019

A Hidden Life is an invocation, the wrenching and unheeded plea of a man struggling to preserve his humanity intact as the world around him…

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Review of Yesterday (2019)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 May 2019

Yesterday, a sweet and well-meaning comedy, is a cautionary tale in taking on such an iconic musical output without adding much new to it…

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Review of Yesterday (2019)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 May 2019

Yesterday, a sweet and well-meaning comedy, is a cautionary tale in taking on such an iconic musical output without adding much new to it…

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Review of First Love (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 May 2019

The pacing is breakneck but the economy with which Miike establishes his various narrative threads and characters is astonishing…

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Review of First Love (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 May 2019

The pacing is breakneck but the economy with which Miike establishes his various narrative threads and characters is astonishing…

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Review of First Love (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 May 2019

The pacing is breakneck but the economy with which Miike establishes his various narrative threads and characters is astonishing…

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Review of Charlie Says (2019)

By Alycia Ripley (3) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 May 2019

In Charlie Says, Mary Harron presents the in-between life, the seemingly banal details that orchestrated this perfect storm of destruction…

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Review of The Hustle (2019)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 May 2019

Like Holmes & Watson proved late last year, two comedic giants is just not enough to save terrible material that should have been fixed long…

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Review of Pain and Glory (2019)

By Ed Frankl (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 May 2019

This is an especially personal work, anchored by the director’s on-off muse Antonio Banderas in perhaps his greatest performance and sweeps…

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Review of The Dead Don't Die (2019)

By Leonardo Goi (38) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 May 2019

A ride that offers plenty of chuckle-inducing moments, but ultimately stalls in a swamp of meta-textual references and cinematic detritus…

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Review of The Third Wife (2019)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 13 May 2019

It’s a mesmerizing look behind a curtain torn away so Mayfair can reveal an authenticity too often masked by historical precedent and conservative…

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Review of Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 09 May 2019

The filmmakers do well to avoid creating a dense puzzle that will only alienate youngsters when leaning on the Pokémon for comic and narrative…

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