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Review of The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for The New Republic (897) on 05 Jul 2016

This sporadically adorable, mostly forgettable family comedy exploits the fetching premise outlined in its title for the first five minutes…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 28 Jun 2016

The film is so sluggishly paced that even its pleasures are overtaken by the boredom creeping in from all corners…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 20 Jun 2016

A deadly combination of self-seriousness and self-indulgence that's more about the obnoxious petulance of its director than anything else…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 16 Jun 2016

It's a sequel that's a continuation of the original film rather than an expansion of it, and it is still a success, though not a triumph…

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Review of Bambi (1942)

By Manny Farber (19) for The New Republic (897) on 15 Jun 2016

The bogus art which has been creeping into the Disney pictures is really hammered at you in this one…

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Review of Bambi (2013)

By Manny Farber (19) for The New Republic (897) on 15 Jun 2016

The bogus art which has been creeping into the Disney pictures is really hammered at you in this one…

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Review of Jaws 2 (1978)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 15 Jun 2016

The surprise in Jaws 2 is that, given the givens, it came out as well as it did…

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Review of Genius (2016)

By Joanna Scutts (1) for The New Republic (897) on 13 Jun 2016

The film struggles mightily to dramatize the work of reading, writing, and editing, with loud scratches of red pencil on paper…

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Review of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 10 Jun 2016

Made with good cheer, it's consistently funny and never overstays its welcome…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 09 Jun 2016

Warcraft is a language you don't speak, a code you can't crack, a party you weren't invited to…

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Review of Kitchen Stories (2003)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 07 Jun 2016

Folke and Isak have nowhere near the dimensions of the pair in Waiting for Godot or in Endgame, but on his level, Hamer follows Beckett's belief…

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Review of The Aviator (2004)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 06 Jun 2016

This same film, shot for shot, line for line, could have been much more solid and engrossing, much farther up the Parnassian slope, with a…

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Review of Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 02 Jun 2016

Overall, the effect is presumably what Eastwood wanted: we are present at a momentous event, not watching a movie…

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Review of O.J.: Made in America (2016)

By Sarah Weinman (1) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jun 2016

Edelman helps us understand why the O.J. verdict was inevitable; it was, in essence, a grand act of jury nullification. O.J…

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Review of The Fits (2016)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for The New Republic (897) on 31 May 2016

Neither cutesy nor needlessly bleak, the debut narrative film from writer-director Anna Rose Holmer possesses a refreshingly intimate, honest…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 26 May 2016

I don't remember the last time I saw actors more dispirited and bored than in Alice Through the Looking Glass…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 25 May 2016

A movie that beats you into submission and makes you wonder if the sun will ever come out again…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 20 May 2016

There's a lot of empty improv in this Neighbors 2, scenes that have no real direction and no drive; the movie is all digression and shouted…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 18 May 2016

The best thing The Nice Guys has going for it are two laid-back, easygoing, deeply likable performances by its stars…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 17 May 2016

You can watch years of political documentaries and never see a moments nearly as intimate and wrenching as the ones you see here…

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