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Review of The Wedding Guest (2019)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Mar 2019

What’s lacking is personality from the human characters, which is a serious failing, considering how the film shifts into character mode…

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Review of Saint Judy (2018)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Feb 2019

Monaghan radiates a winning measure of defiant resilience and dignity, even when she and her illustrious co-stars are reduced to mouthpieces…

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Review of Duke (2018)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Feb 2019

The film sustains more than enough dramatic tension from scene to scene to keep a viewer intrigued, despite the sporadic fuzziness of motivation…

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Review of The Cannibal Club (2019)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Feb 2019

Guto Parente’s eighth feature is a mixed bag: a diverting, stylish, but ultimately rather trite satire whose social critique and grand guignol…

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Review of The Wandering Earth (2019)

By Richard Kuipers (66) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Feb 2019

Director Frant Gwo’s adaptation of the 2000 novella by Liu Cixin is no genre classic, but its furious pace, spectacular visuals, and fanciful…

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Review of Greta (2019)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Feb 2019

Falls squarely in B movie territory but, by virtue of its two lead performers, winds up being far more enjoyable than it has any right to be…

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Review of Judgment Night (1993)

By Leonard Klady (141) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Feb 2019

This is an exceedingly well directed, cleverly filmed and edited, tension-filled affair…

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Review of Hail Satan? (2019)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Feb 2019

The Satanic Temple’s combination of shock tactics and anti-discrimination lawsuits is check-and-mate against America creeping towards a Christian…

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Review of The Aftermath (2019)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Feb 2019

The result is attractive and diverting, as any well-appointed film starring these actors in mouthwatering period finery could hardly fail to…

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Review of The Brink (2019)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Feb 2019

The Brink is an impeccably crafted verité ramble — an engaging and enraging, disturbing and highly revealing movie…

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Review of Synonyms (2019)

By Jay Weissberg (182) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2019

Breathtaking in the way it careens from one scene to the next in a whirlwind of personal and political meaning all but impossible to grasp…

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Review of The Operative (2019)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2019

A proficient but unsurprising espionage thriller from Israeli writer-director Yuval Adler that offers another well-fitted showcase for Diane…

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Review of Piranhas (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2019

To watch young people fall into old patterns is still to watch those old patterns, and the film cannot escape the familiarity of its archetypal,…

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Review of Varda by Agnès (2019)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2019

Slight as a Varda film, but shot through with its maker’s characteristic pluck and whimsy, Varda by Agnès gives her newly recruited fans…

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Review of The Plagiarists (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2019

Wilfully student-video amateurish in form, but impishly sophisticated in content, a gleeful cultural curiosity fairly crackles off The Plagiarists,…

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Review of Gully Boy (2019)

By Jay Weissberg (182) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Feb 2019

A Bollywood movie about a rapper from the slums may sound derivative, but what does that matter when “Gully Boy” revels in high-wattage…

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Review of By the Grace of God (2019)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Feb 2019

That the film works as stirringly as it does is largely because of that brash, heart-on-sleeve engagement with its characters’ messy, unfinished…

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Review of Light of My Life (2019)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Feb 2019

Scene for scene, Affleck does a decent job of directing — his touch is soft, intimate, humane — but he has saddled himself with a script…

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Review of The Golden Glove (2019)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Feb 2019

The Golden Glove may not celebrate its subject, but the intimate examination it offers him is itself a privilege — one for which this ugly,…

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Review of TT3D: Closer to the Edge (2011)

By Leslie Felperin (768) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Feb 2019

Even the most racing-averse auds will have to agree this entertaining whiz around the 2010 Isle of Man TT racing event puts across the thrill…

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