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Review of Polar (2019)

By Courtney Howard (393) for Variety (12,700) on 24 Jan 2019

Gratuitous sex, gruesome torture, copious amounts of gore, and garish imagery populate the picture…

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Review of Pledge (2019)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 24 Jan 2019

This third feature for director Daniel Robbins is no delicate flower of cinematic art, but a lean and mean shocker that tells its tale of collegiate…

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Review of Maktub (2017)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 22 Jan 2019

The light, droll touch applied overall lets the filmmakers get away with a few fairly graphic moments that remind us criminal violence is no…

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Review of Don't Come Back from the Moon (2019)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Jan 2019

The movie captivates and fascinates as a free-form dream constantly poised on a knife edge between roiling nightmare and reassuring resolution…

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Review of All These Small Moments (2019)

By Courtney Howard (393) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Jan 2019

Though this sweet, subtle, and sentimental work is a smidge too simplistic in narrative design, it wins over any resistance with its quiet…

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Review of All These Small Moments (2019)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Jan 2019

Though this sweet, subtle, and sentimental work is a smidge too simplistic in narrative design, it wins over any resistance with its quiet…

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Review of Fyre (2019)

By Daniel D'addario (17) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Jan 2019

Fyre, in the end, understands that the McFarlands of the world, changing the culture online but also wreaking havoc in the very real world,…

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Review of The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)

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

With its retro-video-game score and “Goonies”-style gang of misfit characters, the movie plays like a throwback to Spielberg-produced adventure…

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Review of Replicas (2018)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Jan 2019

How late can a thriller spring a plot twist that at least partially compensates for all the cavernous plot holes, risible dialogue, and ludicrously…

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Review of A Dog's Way Home (2019)

By Courtney Howard (393) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Jan 2019

For every shameless trick the filmmakers employ to pluck our heartstrings, resonant chords are struck elsewhere, teaching audiences about family,…

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Review of Glass (2019)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Jan 2019

It’s good to see Shyamalan back (to a degree) in form, to the extent that he’s recovered his basic mojo as a yarn spinner…

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Review of The Boat That Rocked (2009)

By Derek Elley (230) for Variety (12,700) on 08 Jan 2019

Picture generally stays afloat on the strength of its characters but sometimes threatens to sink under its overlong running time and vignettish…

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Review of American Hangman (2019)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 08 Jan 2019

American Hangman belongs to that species of grade-Z movie that’s at once grisly and pretentious. It’s trash with a lot on its mind…

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Review of The Vanishing (2019)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Jan 2019

Falling between the stools of thriller and drama, this speculative tale grows steadily less satisfying, despite a handsome look and a strong cast…

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Review of Animal Crackers (2018)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Jan 2019

Though inevitably derivative in some ways (it won’t be hard to spot the influence of “Shrek” and various Disney classics), Animal Crackers…

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Review of Escape Room (2019)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Jan 2019

The first part of the film gets some airy momentum going…

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Review of Communion (2019)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Jan 2019

While Communion holds tight to its own private mysteries, it scores a perfect 10 in drawing out viewer empathy, leaving us hoping anxiously…

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Review of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Jan 2019

Here, the visuals outdo anything we’ve seen before, to such a degree that we might almost overlook the subtler innovations in the character…

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Review of The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Dec 2018

Lereng Wilmont's subjects earn their stray moments of rustic poetry; so does his film…

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Review of Life and Nothing More (2018)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Dec 2018

Whereas a Hollywood director might use subjective framing or emotional soundtrack cues to nudge audiences’ reactions in a certain way, Esparza…

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