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Review of A Vigilante (2019)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Mar 2018

As an actress, Olivia Wilde has been something of a shape-shifter, but in this movie she seems to be burning through all her previous roles…

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Review of American Animals (2018)

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

This is unabashedly virtuoso, show-off filmmaking, as cocky as the misguided young men at the film’s center, who, at least for a period,…

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Review of Paradox (2018)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

Paradox, a waste of time made bearable only by its brevity, plays like a bad acid flashback from the 1970s, a time when similarly self-conscious…

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Review of Prospect (2018)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

Constructing character does not appear to be Earl and Caldwell’s strong suit (what’s satisfying about Cee owes almost entirely to Thatcher,…

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Review of Boundaries (2018)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

Boundaries, to be sure, delivers you to a place you know you’re going, but there should always be room for a movie that does that this well…

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Review of Support the Girls (2018)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

Hall’s performance — tender, tough, empathetic, controlled — crumples from tears to laughter in a blink. It’s phenomenal…

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Review of Unlovable (2018)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

There are times when you’re tempted to turn away when Joy makes the latest in a long line of really bad, even self-destructive choices…

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Review of Boundaries (2018)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

Boundaries, to be sure, delivers you to a place you know you’re going, but there should always be room for a movie that does that this well…

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Review of Thunder Road (2018)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

At Thunder Road, you’ll giggle at moments, and you’ll also be moved, but mostly you’ll know the precise crazy-sane reality of who this man is…

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Review of The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter (2018)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

McBride is good for a few chuckles during the first two-thirds of the movie and continues to contribute a fair share of funny business after…

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Review of Benji (2018)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

Benji may be far too simplistic for adults to find much enjoyment in watching, but it rewards active viewing from kids and displays mostly…

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Review of Take Your Pills (2018)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

The kinds of connections that Take Your Pills makes, between the culture of information overload and a radically tightened job market and heightened…

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Review of Jinn (2014)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

Jinn is the rare coming-of-age story that doesn’t simply pat kids on the head and tell them they just need to love themselves…

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Review of Fast Color (2019)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Mar 2018

Ultimately, Fast Color’s thesis is more inspirational than the film, which often seems like it, too, is struggling to swirl itself into something…

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Review of Foreign Body (2016)

By Pamela Pianezza (4) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Mar 2018

In composing this group portrait, “Buried Secrets” director Amari relies upon an efficient but relatively conventional dramaturgic arsenal…

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Review of Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Mar 2018

Dark Web” skates by on saturated nastiness, one terrific kill, and the audience’s engagement in seeing if the filmmakers can pull off the…

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Review of Foreign Body (2018)

By Pamela Pianezza (4) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Mar 2018

In composing this group portrait, “Buried Secrets” director Amari relies upon an efficient but relatively conventional dramaturgic arsenal…

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Review of Our Blood Is Wine (2018)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Mar 2018

Oenophiles may swoon over the delicious native varietals that tease Quinn’s palate, but Railsback’s thin and disorganized documentary doesn’t…

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Review of Dear Dictator (2018)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Mar 2018

Pleasant enough to watch, even innocuous, Dear Dictator is something that gets worse the more you think about it…

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Review of The Happys (2018)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Mar 2018

When the jokes don’t actually materialize (or land), the proceedings become bogged down in drama that the film’s one-dimensional characters…

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