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Review of Night Moves (2014)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Sep 2013

Eisenberg does an enormous amount with what he has, proving to be sinister and vulnerable virtually within the same breath, and expertly putting…

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Review of The Double (2014)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2013

Totally bonkers, hilarious and wickedly clever, The Double is special and singular filmmaking at its best…

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Review of Enemy (2014)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2013

Enemy is a transfixing grand slam that certifies Villeneuve as the real deal and one of the most exciting new voices in cinema today…

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Review of The Invisible Woman (2013)

By Chris Willman (63) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2013

[Fiennes] has rarely been better than he is as the 19th century’s most celebrated novelist, with his chops on screen just about matched by…

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Review of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014)

By Nikola Grozdanovic (99) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2013

Like an epic sonnet, with beautiful accompanying music and songs, “Eleanor Rigby” deals with memory, perception and the emotional toll…

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Review of Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2013

Supermensch is a strong first outing from Myers that plays like that one round of drinks that gets everyone telling stories at the end of a…

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Review of Kill Your Darlings (2013)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2013

Well shot and well made, Kill Your Darlings is a very competently constructed effort on a whole, but there’s an emptiness and familiarity…

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Review of Bad Words (2013)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2013

Bad Words wants so desperately to be funny that there isn't much time left to make any logic out of the story…

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Review of Begin Again (2014)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2013

Since the music doesn't connect like it should, everything else that is underpinned in the story by these songs also doesn't come together…

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Review of Plush (2013)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2013

The movie is sexy, in a very real, occasionally shocking way, and it's interesting to see this kind of frankness in a movie where the characters…

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Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2013

August: Osage County is a film of big, wild gestures, plate smashing, screaming and tears, but not nuance, and it all has the effect of leaving…

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Review of Blue Caprice (2013)

By Gabe Toro (98) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2013

Washington’s performance is one of the best of the year, a high-wire act that is careful not to dip into survivalist caricature…

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Review of The Green Inferno (2013)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2013

In many ways the film feels like a regression -- it's more juvenile, less polished and feels less labored over than his previous efforts…

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Review of Enough Said (2013)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2013

Enough Said is another tremendously well crafted, intelligent dramedy about people, with complicated lives, who make bad decisions trying to…

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Review of GMO OMG (2013)

By Kimber Myers (423) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2013

With the cinematography and its family-centric approach, it takes what could have been a dry subject and broadens its appeal…

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Review of Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)

By Charlie Schmidlin (51) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2013

Why, besides a stellar opening weekend, does this extended narrative exist…

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Review of The Wind Rises (2013)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2013

It might not be the director's most immediately accessible films, but it's among his most fascinating and beguiling…

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Review of The Family (2013)

By Gabe Toro (98) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Sep 2013

The Family is ultimately a headache, nearly two hours of baseball bat beatings and dull witticisms, with zero inventiveness or energy…

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Review of The Sacrament (2014)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Sep 2013

The tension really is beautifully ramped up in these early scenes and gets an audience well prepped to watch carnage unfold around people you've…

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Review of Fading Gigolo (2013)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Sep 2013

Fading Gigolo is mostly an inoffensive trifle, slightly undone by its lack of focus and mishmash of genres that don't quite come together…

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