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Review of Uncertain (2015)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Mar 2017

Uncertain is somber and effective work of mood and tone — a study of time and place, biography and geography that offers a slice of life…

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Review of Betting on Zero (2016)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Mar 2017

Far from dry, Braun’s film takes both a macro and micro approach from the personalities gambling on Herbalife’s stock, some with informed…

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Review of Mean Dreams (2016)

By Mike Mazzanti (39) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Mar 2017

While Mean Dreams stumbles once or twice, it is a thrillingly dark fable draped in beautiful images and a layered, menacing performance from Paxton…

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Review of Porto (2017)

By Ed Frankl (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 13 Mar 2017

Set in the picturesque Portuguese city of the title, the film demonstrates first-time fiction director Gabe Klinger’s eye for visual storytelling,…

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Review of Song to Song (2017)

By Nick Newman (61) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 11 Mar 2017

Any number of sequences find feelings both externalized and hidden intermingling within the same shot, continuing in a subsequent image that…

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Review of The Last Word (2017)

By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 11 Mar 2017

Beat by beat, though, Lauler (played by the stellar Shirley MacLaine) “evolves” in Mark Pellington’s predictable dramedy The Last Word…

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Review of Manifesto (2017)

By Daniel Schindel (90) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 09 Mar 2017

The film is more of a clip show, awkwardly cutting together elements once presented in a drastically different manner…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 08 Mar 2017

In this digital world that allows for Kong to be as big as a building and believably so, Roberts is smart to pull out all the stops…

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Review of The Last Laugh (2016)

By John Ulmer (2) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 07 Mar 2017

There is no uniform answer to whether a joke is funny or not, but Pearlstein has done a superlative job of exploring the reasons for why that is…

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Review of Manifesto (2017)

By Dan Schindel (235) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 07 Mar 2017

The film is more of a clip show, awkwardly cutting together elements once presented in a drastically different manner…

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Review of The Last Laugh (2017)

By John Ulmer (2) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 05 Mar 2017

There is no uniform answer to whether a joke is funny or not, but Pearlstein has done a superlative job of exploring the reasons for why that is…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 03 Mar 2017

Never genuinely thrilling or sincerely hilarious, Beauty and the Beast ho-hums along until the next needle drop of a prominent musical cue…

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Review of Table 19 (2017)

By Chelsey Grasso (12) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 03 Mar 2017

While most of Table 19 is a flop, director Jeffrey Blitz does sometimes graze the surface of what could have been an outside-the-norm approach…

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Review of Headshot (2016)

By Dan Schindel (235) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 28 Feb 2017

All Headshot needed to do was stay lean and mean, and yet the only-there-as-an-excuse-for-the-violence plot still feels like it's getting in the way…

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Review of Kati Kati (2016)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 27 Feb 2017

You know you're in for something special from the opening…

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Review of Argo (2012)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 26 Feb 2017

A solid take on an improbable event in American history…

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Review of Drifter (2016)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 Feb 2017

This should be an intense ride to oblivion or perhaps even a satirical romp chock full of self-indulgent camp, but it proves to be neither…

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Review of Have a Nice Day (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Feb 2017

It might not quite end on a satisfying note, but Have a Nice Day remains an urgent, thoroughly entertaining, and inventive piece of filmmaking…

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Review of Have a Nice Day (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Feb 2017

It might not quite end on a satisfying note, but Have a Nice Day remains an urgent, thoroughly entertaining, and inventive piece of filmmaking…

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Review of Have A Nice Day (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Feb 2017

It might not quite end on a satisfying note, but Have a Nice Day remains an urgent, thoroughly entertaining, and inventive piece of filmmaking…

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