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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The Week (85) on 25 Jul 2018

The Mission: Impossible movies are not emotional experiences, but a visceral expression of Cruise's dogged desire to remain an action star…

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Review of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The Week (85) on 25 Jul 2018

The success of these cartoons comes down to a willingness to reinterpret characters with both visual and thematic adventurousness…

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Review of Blindspotting (2018)

By Candice Frederick (452) for The Week (85) on 19 Jul 2018

As the plot unfolds to lead us to this breaking point, it challenges its audience to overcome long-ingrained stereotypes that a black man is…

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Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Week (85) on 12 Jul 2018

Eighth Grade expertly captures those middle school growing pains every American kid for generations has endured…

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Review of Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The Week (85) on 27 Jun 2018

But if making a sequel to Sicario turns distinctive material into another stylish potboiler with an elevated sense of purpose, Sicario 2 at…

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Review of Damsel (2018)

By Andy Crump (279) for The Week (85) on 21 Jun 2018

Damsel is a men on a mission film devoid of true men or a true mission, and it deploys wit and slapstick to put masculinity on trial…

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Review of Ocean's Eight (2018)

By Andy Crump (279) for The Week (85) on 07 Jun 2018

More so than cool, convoluted heist sequences, it's the chummy hangout vibe of Soderbergh's Ocean's films that makes them such a pleasure to watch…

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Review of Hereditary (2018)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Week (85) on 06 Jun 2018

Aster's genius here is in the way he welds old-fashioned spook-show juju to disturbingly realistic domestic turmoil…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Lili Loofbourow (26) for The Week (85) on 01 May 2018

This is why I find the movie's belief that it's doing something experimental and unprecedented more than uncomfortable: Infinity War gambles…

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Review of Truth or Dare (2018)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The Week (85) on 12 Apr 2018

Instead, director and co-writer Jeff Wadlow often filters the female-friendship material through romantic or sexual rivalries, and the movie…

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Review of Rampage (2018)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The Week (85) on 12 Apr 2018

Even the A-movie budget can't disguise how hollow and insubstantial all of the death and destruction feels, even in action-movie terms…

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Review of Chappaquiddick (2018)

By Lili Loofbourow (26) for The Week (85) on 04 Apr 2018

We need more movies like this: Films that revisit legends of the past and interrogate the ugly blind spots that allowed America to not see…

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Review of Ready Player One (2018)

By Lili Loofbourow (26) for The Week (85) on 29 Mar 2018

I'm here to report that you can still have a good time at Ready Player One even if you don't get most of the references…

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Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The Week (85) on 23 Mar 2018

If you liked Pacific Rim, you'll probably like Uprising, too. It might even leave a generation of kids wanting more…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By Lili Loofbourow (26) for The Week (85) on 09 Mar 2018

A Wrinkle in Time is a big deal for many reasons worth celebrating. It also isn't perfect. And that's okay…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Lili Loofbourow (26) for The Week (85) on 15 Feb 2018

Black Panther's failures, like its triumphs, are more Shakespearean than superheroic…

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Review of Phantom Thread (2017)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The Week (85) on 28 Dec 2017

And now Phantom Thread is a half-harrowing, half-tender chamber piece about the nature of love that also pokes, amusingly, at the supposed…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Week (85) on 28 Dec 2017

Whatever artificial limitations Sorkin puts on his female characters though, he's empathetic enough to understand that Molly Bloom's story…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Week (85) on 28 Dec 2017

But while The Post celebrates the free flow of information, it's primarily about the businessmen who expected Kay Graham to follow their advice…

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Review of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

By Lili Loofbourow (26) for The Week (85) on 20 Dec 2017

You won't feel much, you probably won't forget you're sitting in a theater watching a group of people play a game, but it's fun, and funny…

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