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Review of 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)

By Andrew Crump (271) for The Playlist (3,871) on 06 Mar 2022

The film should read like an epic…

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Review of The Batman (2022)

By Robert Daniels (336) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Feb 2022

Matt Reeves’ The Batman should tell audiences that other superhero movies are possible, and yet more, they can be had outside the formulaic…

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Review of NO EXIT (2022)

By Nick Allen (397) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Feb 2022

While its minimalism can make for a mixed bag of surprises, “Killing Ground” director Damien Power ensures that No Exit has enough of his…

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Review of No Exit (2022)

By Nick Allen (397) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Feb 2022

While its minimalism can make for a mixed bag of surprises, “Killing Ground” director Damien Power ensures that No Exit has enough of his…

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Review of The Ledge (2022)

By Asher Luberto (79) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 Feb 2022

As good as she is, and as timely as the film can be, it is frustrating that the villain seems to have waltzed in from a 1930s noir…

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Review of A Banquet (2022)

By Ned Booth (6) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 Feb 2022

With a little more focus, “A Banquet” could be a haunting portrait of a family in crisis, an adolescent adrift, and mothers’ care gone…

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Review of Alcarràs (2022)

By Rafaela Sales Ross (19) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2022

In its expert blend of vivid cinematography and naturalistic performances, Alcarràs creates a refined study of heritage that understands life’s…

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Review of The Novelist's Film (2022)

By Mark Asch (48) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 Feb 2022

Though it lacks the near-spiritual dimension of the recent “In Front of Your Face” (Hong’s best in years), The Novelist’s Film is another…

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Review of Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

By Andrew Crump (271) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 Feb 2022

No one can top Hooper or “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” or even match them. Garcia is smart enough not to put on airs…

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Review of Dark Glasses (2022)

By Elena Lazic (92) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Feb 2022

Together with the firm confidence of its execution, perhaps it is this sincerity that marks Dark Glasses as a touching late work from a master…

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Review of This Much I Know to Be True (2022)

By Rafaela Sales Ross (19) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Feb 2022

Those who have seen One More Time With Feeling will undoubtedly have a deeper appreciation for this follow-up companion piece, but — even…

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Review of Uncharted (2022)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Feb 2022

Fleischer channels the tenor of the influences his film wears on its sleeve: the manipulative music demanding awe, the lighthearted spirit…

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Review of Both Sides of the Blade (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Feb 2022

Marie never seems particularly interested in either man except for how they are interested in her and is revealed to be so self-centered in…

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Review of Flux Gourmet (2022)

By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Feb 2022

This is Strickland’s grand act of prestidigitation; he coaxes out something like poignancy from the peculiar, just as he conjures the visceral…

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Review of Superior (2022)

By Beatrice Loayza (94) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Feb 2022

Superior falls short of inhabiting the period within which it purports to exist…

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Review of Incredible But True (2022)

By Elena Lazic (92) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Feb 2022

Dupieux, a director who has always been attuned to the absurd humor and casual beauty of the every day, effortlessly aligns us with Alain’s…

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Review of Bigbug (2022)

By Nick Allen (397) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Feb 2022

This movie has Jeunet doing “The Jetsons” while ruminating on what a robot uprising might inevitably look like, but that proves to be less…

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Review of I Want You Back (2022)

By Lauren J. Coates (21) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Feb 2022

Though the film boasts an impressive comedic roster and delivers a surprising number of thoughtful, emotional beats, its aimless storytelling…

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Review of Big Gold Brick (2022)

By Brian Farvour (12) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Feb 2022

No matter how one tries to unpack the curious contents of “Big Gold Brick,” they’ll likely be unable to find much of anything outside…

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Review of Marry Me (2022)

By Lauren J. Coates (21) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Feb 2022

Even with a handful of toe-tapping songs written by Maluma and JLo specifically for the film Marry Me is an off-tune rom-com that should make…

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