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Review of Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)

By Mike Mazzanti (39) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 06 Dec 2018

This take on the man-boy Mowgli and his pack of jungle pals strides in technically bold new directions while also wading through narratively…

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Review of Hotel by the River (2019)

By Leonardo Goi (38) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 30 Nov 2018

Slow-paced and meditative, Hotel by the River is a director’s plunge into a milieu where chuckles go hand in hand, often to ambiguous and…

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Review of The Mercy (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 29 Nov 2018

Maybe The Mercy‘s greatest strength is that pragmatism to fuel its eleventh-hour chastisement of anyone blind to Hallworth’s complicity…

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Review of ¡Las Sandinistas! (2018)

By Jose Solís Mayén (28) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 28 Nov 2018

As American news channels obsess with the non-threat of the migrant caravan seeking refuge in the U.S., Las Sandinistas…

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Review of Write When You Get Work (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 22 Nov 2018

So we’re left with a problematic façade that can’t avoid tainting the thought-provoking crime mystery unfolding beneath it…

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Review of Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 22 Nov 2018

Where the original grounded itself within its conceit, Ralph Breaks the Internet's much broader one inevitably consumes it…

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Review of Creed II (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Nov 2018

Gone are the little moments of humanity that punched us in the gut when the suspense of victory was absent…

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Review of The Cleaners (2018)

By Daniel Schindel (90) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Nov 2018

The Cleaners ably raises questions around the issue without following through on tying them together, often seeming like it’s simply bouncing…

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Review of A Private War (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 Nov 2018

Part of why the performances work so effectively is that Heineman uses his documentary sensibilities to capture them with sensory context above…

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Review of Green Book (2018)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 Nov 2018

Farrelly is telling a heart-warming, comical buddy story first and foremost, and Green Book, for better or worse, feels more like a wholehearted…

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Review of Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2018)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 Nov 2018

Chronicling Bland’s own Facebook activism along with an examination of the mysterious circumstances of her death, the film is part legal…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

By Vikram Murthi (112) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Nov 2018

It’s sad that Fantastic Beasts pulls off what I assumed was impossible: It turned an imaginative fantasy world into dreary wallpaper…

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Review of Jinn (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Nov 2018

At a time when Islam has become weaponized as a synonym for ISIS, we need glimpses at its positivity and humanity…

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Review of The Clovehitch Killer (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Nov 2018

It’s a shame because McDermott effectively toes the line between dorky and menacing (before the film explains which is real), Plummer is…

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Review of Jonathan (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 12 Nov 2018

For forty minutes we become intimately aware of Oliver’s sci-fi conceit through heightened emotions, visual puzzles, and potential betrayals…

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Review of Overlord (2018)

By Mike Mazzanti (39) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 10 Nov 2018

Overlord is a pure hell fest, unabashed in its fashioning of tattered grindhouse attire and yet never cheeky in its delivery…

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Review of The Truth About Killer Robots (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 08 Nov 2018

Pozdorovkin expertly curates stories, philosophies, and dangers into a narrative that explains how Skynet should never have been our greatest…

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Review of Outlaw King (2018)

By Mike Mazzanti (39) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 08 Nov 2018

Outlaw King is a sincere war picture with ferocious violence and an inconsistent but righteously beating heart…

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Review of Nobody's Fool (2018)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 05 Nov 2018

I still think Perry, who has made 18 feature films, will eventually make his masterpiece of American cinema. This is far from it…

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Review of Monster Party (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Nov 2018

Letting the “monsters” dispatch each other lets our “heroes” retain their fear and expendability — they can die when you least expect…

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