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Review of The Sleepwalker (2014)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Nov 2014

A darkly mysterious and extremely accomplished first feature…

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Review of Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Nov 2014

Alluring and captivating, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely can’t ultimately overcome its undeveloped arty tendencies, but its hazy exploration of…

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Review of Penance (2009)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Nov 2014

It’s a reminder of what a tremendously talented writer and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is, and hopefully we’ll see him venturing back to…

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Review of Penance (2013)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Nov 2014

It’s a reminder of what a tremendously talented writer and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is, and hopefully we’ll see him venturing back to…

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Review of Dumb and Dumber To (2014)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Nov 2014

The original film was unpredictable and loose and every so often gave up the aura of dangerousness…

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Review of American Sniper (2014)

By Charlie Schmidlin (51) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Nov 2014

Eastwood wisely trains the camera on Cooper's face and keeps it there — he knows his actor can carry the story’s emotion when other aspects…

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Review of Salma (2014)

By Charlie Schmidlin (51) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Nov 2014

Selma is vital correspondence, filmmaking lived on the streets where brutal facts were ignored then reported, and now snatched back from history…

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Review of Penance (2014)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Nov 2014

It’s a reminder of what a tremendously talented writer and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is, and hopefully we’ll see him venturing back to…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Charlie Schmidlin (51) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Nov 2014

Selma is vital correspondence, filmmaking lived on the streets where brutal facts were ignored then reported, and now snatched back from history…

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Review of The Gambler (1974)

By Charlie Schmidlin (51) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Nov 2014

A genre exercise such as this needs invention, and while Wyatt trots out a slick stamp on proceedings with a game cast, his version never works…

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Review of Actress (2014)

By Nikola Grozdanovic (99) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Nov 2014

While zooming in and out of Burre’s life, Greene foregoes true insight in favor of a stylistic approach, using the kind of cinematic language…

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Review of The Gambler (2014)

By Charlie Schmidlin (51) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Nov 2014

A genre exercise such as this needs invention, and while Wyatt trots out a slick stamp on proceedings with a game cast, his version never works…

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Review of A Most Violent Year (2014)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Nov 2014

A Most Violent Year asks you to watch and listen and pay close attention; it also rewards that investment with subtle, real pleasures and provocations…

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Review of The Better Angels (2014)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Nov 2014

The Better Angels borders deeply on self-serious parody, virtually utilizing a checklist of every stylistic trope Edwards' cinematic maharishi…

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Review of Comet (2014)

By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Oct 2014

Anchored by career-best performances from Long and Rossum, and a juicy script that bravely dives into the darkest parts of breaking up and…

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Review of Zero Motivation (2014)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Oct 2014

An absorbing office saga and diverting dark comedy, Zero Motivation is a surprisingly insightful coming-of-age tale, utilizing the milieu of…

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Review of Horns (2013)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Oct 2014

When Horns thankfully concludes, relief sets in; this hellishly misguided effort concludes with an inferno and sequels are never sprung from…

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Review of Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Oct 2014

The story is so poorly-plotted, nonsensical, and misogynist that it's hard to imagine one person liking this material, much less millions of…

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Review of Algorithms (2013)

By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Oct 2014

Algorithms is a completely unique film, unlike any other documentary you might see this year, both for its content and its form…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By James Rocchi (1,075) for The Playlist (3,871) on 27 Oct 2014

Promising outer-space majesty and deep-thought topics like some modern variation on Stanley Kubrick's “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Interstellar…

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