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Review of One Child Nation (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 30 Aug 2019

One Child Nation does not flinch from critiquing mass complicity and the broader cultural logic—specifically the indoctrination into party…

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Review of Ad Astra (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 29 Aug 2019

While visually and aurally stunning, James Gray’s latest film doesn’t explore anything new…

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Review of Marriage Story (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 29 Aug 2019

For all its strife and sorrow, Marriage Story is a generous film…

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Review of The Kitchen (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 07 Aug 2019

It’s a mess of a movie, choppy and incoherent, a mishmash of tone that veers wildly from comedy to bloody drama, a gangster epic with no…

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Review of Honeyland (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 06 Aug 2019

Honeyland is thankfully too interested in the particulars of Hatidze to reduce her to demographic trivia…

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Review of Yesterday (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 06 Aug 2019

Yesterday isn’t nearly as fantastical, sweet, or light on its feet as it could be—and maybe that’s because of that darn premise…

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Review of The Art of Self-Defense (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 06 Aug 2019

A strange, uneven, but ultimately effective satire of masculinity…

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Review of Yesterday (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 06 Aug 2019

Yesterday isn’t nearly as fantastical, sweet, or light on its feet as it could be—and maybe that’s because of that darn premise…

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Review of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 31 Jul 2019

Though some zesty flair has been added—particularly a new heroine—this hyper-aggro spin-off of a beloved franchise over does it while…

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Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 20 Jul 2019

Its universality, if you want to call it that, can only be so headily conjured because The Farewell is about exactly what it’s about: this…

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Review of The Lion King (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 11 Jul 2019

The Lion King, ultimately, is simply a copy—not a true remake…

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Review of Aladdin (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 11 Jul 2019

Smith is the lifeboat leading us to a more pleasurable film, one where it doesn’t so much matter that the sets look cheap, to say nothing…

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Review of Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 27 Jun 2019

If yet another Marvel movie is a little self-conscious about being yet another Marvel movie, does that excuse it from being, well, yet another…

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Review of Midsommar (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 19 Jun 2019

Midsommar is a shocking piece of filmmaking—unnervingly competent even when the film yaws into silliness, even when it risks tedium…

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Review of Murder Mystery (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 14 Jun 2019

The movie proves a cheery enough diversion, during a summer movie season leaden with underwhelming blockbuster offerings…

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Review of Toy Story 4 (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 13 Jun 2019

Toy Story 4 not only delivers plenty of gonzo-funny moments and genuine thrills, but also interrogates and complicates the series’s core themes…

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Review of This One's for the Ladies (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 13 Jun 2019

The documentary isn’t a masterwork of craft, but in the interviews, there’s always a glimpse of some broader story, be it the electric…

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Review of The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 13 Jun 2019

The displacement Jimmie feels pervades most every shot of Talbot’s film and gives it all a slow-churning aura of foreignness and melancholy,…

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Review of Men in Black: International (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 13 Jun 2019

Sure, it provides some summer work for talented people—director F…

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Review of Dark Phoenix (2019)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 03 Jun 2019

The movie feels too late and too little, a minor work that’s perhaps too streamlined to be really messy, but nonetheless has an air of shambling…

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