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Review of Perfect (2018)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Mar 2018

A trippy take on genetic engineering, Perfect is a mind-altering film that, depending on the viewer's sensibilities, will either be an expressionist…

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Review of Galveston (2018)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Mar 2018

Foster and Fanning are predictably great together, cut from the same bayou cloth, both doing what they must to get by, but the script gives…

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Review of More Human Than Human (2018)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Mar 2018

Like the scientists, practitioners, and artists featured here, More Human Than Human is just scratching the surface, and that's exciting enough…

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Review of Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2019)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Mar 2018

It leaves too many unanswered threads, attempting to at once demystify the creator and preserve the mystery around the creations that dominated…

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Review of Perfect (2019)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Mar 2018

A trippy take on genetic engineering, Perfect is a mind-altering film that, depending on the viewer's sensibilities, will either be an expressionist…

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Review of Relaxer (2019)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Mar 2018

Relaxer is a hard film to “like,” full of commentary and situations that push the bounds of good taste and camp but it’s one of Potrykus’…

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Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

By Dan Schindel (235) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 Mar 2018

It outdoes its predecessor in embracing big-kid-playing-with-action-figures fun, and that makes it measurably more enjoyable than a lot of…

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Review of The New Romantic (2018)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 22 Mar 2018

The New Romantic is the rare film that presents these relationships without judgment offering up the good, bad, painful, and confusing as a…

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Review of I Kill Giants (2017)

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

While the film isn’t as subtle as A Monster Calls or Where the Wild Things Are, it captures the messiness of suffering just as well…

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Review of Support the Girls (2018)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 Mar 2018

Bujalski as a filmmaker has created a film as fascinating as anything in his previous output…

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Review of Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

By Daniel Schindel (90) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 Mar 2018

The film can easily coast on sentimentality and nostalgia for emotion, and does so frequently and unabashed…

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Review of Thunder Road (2018)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Mar 2018

The film is wholly original taking on issues of the day from parental rights to mental illness and later, the opioid crisis…

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Review of Love, Simon (2018)

By Dan Schindel (235) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Mar 2018

It's undeniably a good thing that it exists, that we have a wide-release movie that treats homosexuality as normal and natural, is about a…

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Review of Love, Simon (2018)

By Daniel Schindel (90) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Mar 2018

Over two shapeless hours, it walks through sequences that announce their emotional gravitas while only sporadically earning it…

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Review of American Animals (2018)

By Daniel Schindel (90) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 12 Mar 2018

American Animals is a legitimately exciting, funny, suspenseful, and at one point deeply upsetting crime film, ably demonstrating a command…

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Review of Blockers (2018)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 11 Mar 2018

Blockers doesn’t pull off the impossible so much as it turns the tables on a common formula, finding something fresh, empowering, and hilarious…

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Review of RBG (2018)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 09 Mar 2018

Intimate without being obtrusive, RBG doesn’t exactly demystify the Supreme Court so much as it brings us closer to one of its greats…

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Review of Gringo (2018)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 09 Mar 2018

Watching bad people be bad gets tiring, especially when there’s someone like Oyelowo transcending the material to lend complexity and uncertainty…

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Review of Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

By Dan Schindel (235) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 07 Mar 2018

There are glimpses of a more complex human being throughout the film, one who would have made for a much better subject…

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Review of Dovlatov (2018)

By C.j. Prince (29) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 06 Mar 2018

German uses this six-day window to evoke a specific time and place, and through that specificity, he creates a satisfying ode to the struggle…

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