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Review of Evolution of a Criminal (2014)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 19 Nov 2014

Evolution of a Criminal' is a documentary and a provocation, a movie and a bitter truth to swallow…

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Review of Miss Julie (2014)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 19 Nov 2014

Chastain's electrifying performance places among the great female dramatic turns in a literary tragedy, from Nina Pens Rode in 'Gertrud' to…

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Review of Kids for Cash (2014)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 11 Nov 2014

Kids for Cash' will scare the wits out of anyone worried about how institutional neglect is affecting our kids…

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Review of 10,000 Km (2014)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 11 Nov 2014

Marques-Marcet's lovely debut opens with an impressively staged single take that manages to convey the entire universe of a longterm relationship…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 11 Nov 2014

Part existential murder mystery, part Freudian detective story and fully an indictment of the American success story…

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Review of White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 22 Oct 2014

Araki's beautifully told films make you feel warm and fuzzy... revealing a latent darkness that leaves you unsafe and unsettled…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 08 Jul 2014

An intimate epic as fresh and thrillingly alive as Francois Truffaut's films of Antoine Doinel, who was wrought in five movies beginning with…

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Review of The Congress (2013)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 07 Jun 2014

The Congress' widens the possibilities of filmmaking -- and in doing so, is as pro-cinema as it is anti-Hollywood…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

By Anne Thompson (51) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 06 Jun 2014

This is a manipulatively fake studio movie all the way, anchored and saved by star Shailene Woodley's inability to be inauthentic…

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Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By Anne Thompson (51) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 06 Jun 2014

Liman has a gift for off-center authenticity--even amid the orchestrated chaos of a major studio FX picture…

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Review of Test (2014)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 03 Jun 2014

Capture[s] the realities and rhythms of gay urban life without succumbing to the cliches that tend to plague queer cinema…

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Review of Test (2014)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 03 Jun 2014

Capture[s] the realities and rhythms of gay urban life without succumbing to the cliches that tend to plague queer cinema…

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Review of Borgman (2013)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 03 Jun 2014

A nasty, insane, mind-melting and unpredictable piece of work…

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Review of White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

By Beth Hanna (13) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 01 May 2014

The truest mark of Araki's success with this very good if flawed film may be that its finale, while completely telegraphed, is still moving…

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Review of Frank (2014)

By Beth Hanna (13) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 01 May 2014

Now, about Frank. Abrahamson has done something quite brilliant with the casting here, akin to Spike Jonze using Scarlett Johansson's voice in Her…

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Review of What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

By Beth Hanna (13) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 01 May 2014

Taikia Waititi and Jemaine Clement's rollicking mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows shows us that bloodsuckers have banal problems, too…

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Review of Happy Christmas (2014)

By Beth Hanna (13) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 01 May 2014

As Joe Swanberg matures as a filmmaker, he's looking at what happens to the Mumblecore generation once they get older…

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Review of Night Moves (2014)

By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 28 Apr 2014

The film's universe is one of complex moral fabric, where red herrings fall like flies and paranoia, among other things, is in the water…

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Review of Abuse of Weakness (2013)

By Beth Hanna (13) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 28 Apr 2014

The title of the film may be Abuse of Weakness, but Isabelle Huppert's performance as a filmmaker who suffers a stroke and then gets willingly…

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Review of 13 Sins (2014)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 23 Apr 2014

The overall effect is enormously amusing. And haunting as well…

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