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Review of The Survivor (2022)

By Jason Bailey (832) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2021

The Survivor is occasionally infected by the aridness of the handsome, well-made historical film — it feels old-fashioned, in both the complimentary…

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Review of The Survivor (2022)

By Jason Bailey (832) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2021

The Survivor is occasionally infected by the aridness of the handsome, well-made historical film — it feels old-fashioned, in both the complimentary…

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Review of Citizen Ashe (2021)

By Murtada Elfadl (54) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Sep 2021

The filmmaking is not as distinctive as what Pollard achieved with “MLK/FBI.” Perhaps that’s because this is not a confrontational piece…

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Review of Lady of the Manor (2021)

By Christian Gallichio (84) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Sep 2021

The Longs’ debut film may be Frankensteined together from disparate genres…

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Review of The Desperate Hour (2022)

By Marya E. Gates (65) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2021

Philip Noyce is a natural choice for this kind of film. He’s great with actresses in peril and at keeping tension ramped up to eleven…

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Review of Encounter (2021)

By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2021

The film’s saving graces is not only Ahmed, who, as you’d expect, elevates the material every chance he gets, but his on-screen connection…

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Review of Encounter (2021)

By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2021

The film’s saving graces is not only Ahmed, who, as you’d expect, elevates the material every chance he gets, but his on-screen connection…

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Review of Encounter (2021)

By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2021

The film’s saving graces is not only Ahmed, who, as you’d expect, elevates the material every chance he gets, but his on-screen connection…

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Review of Benediction (2022)

By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2021

Despite Davis’ lyrical direction, the obvious gaps in the screenplay provide too many holes for what strives to be a definitive portrait…

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Review of The Forgiven (2022)

By Jason Bailey (832) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2021

McDonagh is such a smart writer that one spends much of the movie waiting for his script to exhibit some awareness of the trope, and to comment…

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Review of Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (2022)

By Jason Bailey (832) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2021

Gellar and Goldfine manage the tone expertly, inserting little jolts of humor to keep things from getting too reverent…

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Review of Benediction (2021)

By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2021

Despite Davis’ lyrical direction, the obvious gaps in the screenplay provide too many holes for what strives to be a definitive portrait…

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Review of The Mad Women's Ball (2021)

By Marya E. Gates (65) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2021

Laurent’s portrait of women pushed to the edge of society, exploited, and tortured for the sake of progress is uncompromising and fearless…

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Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2021

You can certainly respect Sharpe for taking a big swing in this regard, but he can’t bring the proceedings back to earth when the audience…

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Review of Belfast (2021)

By Monica Castillo (380) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2021

The parts of the movie that are going to resonate the most have the pacing they need to bring up one’s own memories of listening to a grandparent’s…

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Review of The Starling (2021)

By Marya E. Gates (65) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2021

It’s nice to see McCarthy and O’Dowd in roles that showcase their emotional range; one just wishes it were in a project worthy of their talents…

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Review of The Lost Daughter (2021)

By Tomris Laffly (460) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2021

The Lost Daughter leaves you haunted, shaken, and crushingly scarred like only the best of films are capable of doing…

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Review of The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2021

Despite the oh gee golly wiz Midwestern yokel-isms and the aforementioned cartoonish makeup she wears—historically accurate, yes, but still…

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Review of 7 Prisoners (2021)

By Monica Castillo (380) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Sep 2021

The tightly wound human drama increases to a boiling point that simmers all the way to the credits…

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Review of The Guilty (2021)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Sep 2021

What makes The Guilty good is the way it tacitly communicates so much about the character without ever having to speak his issues out loud…

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