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Review of Speer Goes to Hollywood (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Nov 2021

A rather pedestrian presentation of a potentially fascinating story, Vanessa Lapa’s Speer Goes to Hollywood expands on a little-known footnote…

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Review of Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Oct 2021

On some level, every “Paranormal Activity” film is about monsters caught on camera, but in this one the demons remain scariest when they’re…

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Review of Army of Thieves (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Oct 2021

Army of Thieves is one of those bombastically blithe and fanciful Netflix action movies, in this case with a romantic heart…

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Review of Eternals (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 24 Oct 2021

Zhao’s sensibility, to a degree, is there — in the casual humanity of the characters, in the flow of quip and conflict and passion (at…

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Review of Warning (2021)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 22 Oct 2021

This is sci-fi cinema of a relatively subtle, intriguing stripe, without the usual emphasis on fantastical or action imagery…

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Review of Warning (2021)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 22 Oct 2021

This is sci-fi cinema of a relatively subtle, intriguing stripe, without the usual emphasis on fantastical or action imagery…

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Review of The Phantom of the Open (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Oct 2021

The jokes write themselves, though in The Phantom of the Open, screenwriter Simon Farnaby and director Craig Roberts make them sweeter and…

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Review of Four Hours at the Capitol (2021)

By Daniel D'addario (17) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Oct 2021

The imagery of destruction and assault is powerful on its own terms; it’s in building the story of the participants’ motives and actions…

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Review of Hard Luck Love Song (2021)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Oct 2021

Instead of persuasive verisimilitude and compelling character development, we get scene after scene of Jesse waiting for something, anything…

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Review of Falling for Figaro (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Oct 2021

Expect no surprises in Falling for Figaro, a corny, cute-enough carpe diem comedy, in which it’s a lovable ensemble — led by Danielle Macdonald,…

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Review of The Blazing World (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Oct 2021

Ambitious but tediously precious, sincerely conceived but derivatively realized, The Blazing World throws an ornate heap of production design…

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Review of Freeland (2021)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Oct 2021

Where Freeland is an unadulterated success is in capturing the physical, psychological and spiritual space Devi inhabits…

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Review of Luzzu (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Oct 2021

An honest, affecting slab of working-class portraiture, altogether bracing with its thorny labor politics and salty sea air…

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Review of Antlers (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Oct 2021

What makes suggestion-driven Antlers so disturbing isn’t the movie’s tension- and dread-building mechanics so much as the way the filmmaker…

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Review of South of Heaven (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Oct 2021

The movie gives Jason Sudeikis a chance to act without the safety net of comedy, and he proves that he’s got the right stuff…

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Review of The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Oct 2021

A brash, gutsy, morbidly funny first feature from actor-filmmaker-podcaster Dasha Nekrasova, it runs on a premise that could have been written…

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Review of Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Oct 2021

It’s a shame that the mile-a-minute plot of “Ron’s Gone Wrong” isn’t more focused…

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Review of The Tender Bar (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Oct 2021

It’s not easy being Ben Affleck, by which I mean, there aren’t many actors who seem so comfortably themselves on-screen, and now that Affleck…

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Review of Madonna: Madame X (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Oct 2021

Madame X, on the joy scale, feels drained…

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Review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Oct 2021

The good news for “Ghostbusters” fans is that “Afterlife” does nothing to tarnish what has come before…

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