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Review of Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Dec 2018

The movie has won year-end attention (it made this year’s Oscar documentary short list), and once you let yourself glide onto its wavelength,…

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Review of Holmes & Watson (2018)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 25 Dec 2018

The trouble is, Sherlock Holmes exists so large in audiences’ minds already that the pair’s uninspired take feels neither definitive nor…

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Review of Swing Kids (2018)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 24 Dec 2018

A brash, busy and often bizarre genre mashup from South Korean blockbuster merchant Kang Hyeong-Cheol, this far-fetched tale of an African-American…

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Review of All Is True (2018)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Dec 2018

The result is a revisionist fiasco, too dense with Shakespeare allusions for casual moviegoers, and too fast and loose with the facts for those…

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Review of Renegades (2017)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Dec 2018

While not particularly inspired, memorable or suspenseful, the action here is impressively scaled, from a tank plunging off a bridge to helicopter…

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Review of Renegades (1989)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Dec 2018

While not particularly inspired, memorable or suspenseful, the action here is impressively scaled, from a tank plunging off a bridge to helicopter…

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Review of Second Act (2018)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 20 Dec 2018

Even though Second Act shouldn’t work, it does (sort of). It’s got flow, a certain knowing ticky-tackiness about its own contrivances…

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Review of Welcome to Marwen (2018)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 19 Dec 2018

The film is far from incompetent, and it brims with ambition, but too much of the time what’s happening just sits there…

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Review of The Wedding (2018)

By Jay Weissberg (182) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Dec 2018

The film's lack of originality goes beyond its title as it tediously imitates fixed-camera observational indie dramas while privileging dialogue…

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Review of They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Dec 2018

If They Shall Not Grow Old is head-spinning for its jolting animation of creakily shot battle scenes — tricked out with ingeniously integrated…

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Review of Vice (2018)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Dec 2018

The movie, though it pretends to reveal how power works, is ultimately content to remain on the outside, sticking its finger in the eye of power…

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Review of Vice (2018)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Dec 2018

The movie, though it pretends to reveal how power works, is ultimately content to remain on the outside, sticking its finger in the eye of power…

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Review of Malila: The Farewell Flower (2018)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Dec 2018

A film dedicated to the simultaneous beauty and cruelty of impermanence…

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Review of Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)

By Robert Koehler (477) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Dec 2018

Los Angeles may be the most photographed city in the world, but it has never have been captured with such complex layers of meaning and fascination…

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Review of Backtrace (2018)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Dec 2018

Throughout most of the movie’s running time, Modine is tasked with the majority of the heavy lifting, and he handles the burden admirably…

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Review of Dead Women Walking (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Dec 2018

Ben-Asher, in her fourth feature, strips down the story with serious-minded determination, rigorously defining the film's narrow scope and…

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Review of Dumplin' (2018)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Dec 2018

Indeed, from its unpatronizing body-positive messaging to its restrained, tactful faith-based concessions (a given with Parton on board), Dumplin…

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Review of The Quake (2018)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Dec 2018

There’s nothing terribly profound or innovative about what The Quake achieves…

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Review of Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Dec 2018

It’s a rapturous piece of nostalgia — a film that devotes itself, in every madly obsessive frame, to making you feel happy in the guileless…

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Review of The Mule (2018)

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

There’s nothing inherently wrong with presenting bigoted people onscreen, since heaven knows they exist in real life, but the trouble with…

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