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Review of Julieta (2016)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 May 2016

If the resulting film, Julieta feels neither wholly Munro nor typically Almodovar in final execution, there is still a very compelling energy…

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Review of Search Party (2014)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 May 2016

Given how good the cast often are elsewhere, it doesn’t seem unfair to put this at Armstrong’s door, and the film has a very first-time-director…

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Review of Toni Erdmann (2016)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 May 2016

Every family is its own country with culture and customs and embarrassments that seem alien beyond its borders, but the genius of Maren Ade‘s…

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Review of Hell or High Water (2016)

By Nikola Grozdanovic (99) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 May 2016

Hell or High Water might walk over familiar ground with second-hand boots in terms of character development and structural beats, but it does…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 May 2016

It is indulgent in its length and relative plotlessness, though there’s no point at which the bravado of Arnold’s filmmaking, Lane’s…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Nikola Grozdanovic (99) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 May 2016

The BFG exceeds expectations thanks to Rylance’s performance, and joyously expounds the essence of a cherished children’s tale in all of…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 May 2016

The Nice Guys, which the screenwriter also directed, is the best of Black’s films…

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Review of Search Party (2016)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 May 2016

Given how good the cast often are elsewhere, it doesn’t seem unfair to put this at Armstrong’s door, and the film has a very first-time-director…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 May 2016

The film is never as savage as the first-act anarchy suggests it might be, and its best ideas are subsumed into familiar thriller concepts…

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Review of Café Society (2016)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 May 2016

What little shock of the new the film can provide us with comes from the honeyed cinematography by Vittorio Storaro which uses silhouettes,…

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Review of The Innocents (2016)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 May 2016

Director Anne Fontaine’s film is based on actual events and grapples with thorny questions that plague even the most zealous during times…

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Review of The Innocents (1961)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 May 2016

Director Anne Fontaine’s film is based on actual events and grapples with thorny questions that plague even the most zealous during times…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 May 2016

Apocalypse feels like a cog in Fox’s perpetual-motion blockbuster machine, paying lip service to the story’s allegorical potential as it…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 05 May 2016

At its best, the film becomes something winningly subversive…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 03 May 2016

There’s very little in The Huntsman: Winter's War itself that is actively bad…

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Review of Always Shine (2016)

By Kimber Myers (423) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 May 2016

It’s simultaneously incredibly pleasurable and quite disturbing, owing to its chilling elements and commentary on larger issues…

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Review of Elstree 1976 (2015)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 May 2016

Without patronizing or condescending, it’s an examination of how fame can change us and haunt us, and of the complicated relationships that…

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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

By Kimber Myers (423) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Apr 2016

Mother’s Day is the cinematic equivalent of spilling boiling hot coffee on your mother when you bring her burnt toast for breakfast in bed…

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Review of Mother's Day (1980)

By Kimber Myers (423) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Apr 2016

Mother’s Day is the cinematic equivalent of spilling boiling hot coffee on your mother when you bring her burnt toast for breakfast in bed…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 Apr 2016

The actors test one another like boxers perpetually about to throw the first punch, but all the buildup around their encounter is flabby and…

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