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Review of Yakuza Princess (2021)

By Richard Kuipers (66) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2021

While it generally lacks dramatic oomph and the story is confusing at times, Yakuza Princess delivers plenty of visual excitement…

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Review of Deception (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2021

Arnaud Desplechin’s Deception is a strange, stifling but frequently intriguing attempt to find a cinematic match for the literary voice of…

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Review of Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2021

The songs are nearly all bouncy, look-at-me numbers intended for Jamie and his inner circle…

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Review of Hit the Road (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2021

Like this extraordinary, ordinary family, latticed together by love yet supremely alive in their own individual hearts, Panah Panahi is not…

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Review of The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2021

Here we have seven escape routes, each one reconnecting us to a world inevitably transformed by the pandemic — a world where art lives on…

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Review of Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2021

The songs are nearly all bouncy, look-at-me numbers intended for Jamie and his inner circle…

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Review of Deception (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2021

Arnaud Desplechin’s Deception is a strange, stifling but frequently intriguing attempt to find a cinematic match for the literary voice of…

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Review of Vacation Friends (2021)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Aug 2021

Vacation Friends does earn a fair share of guffaws with its familiar mix of R-rated raunch and feel-good sentiment, and it’s lightly amusing…

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Review of He's All That (2021)

By Courtney Howard (393) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Aug 2021

While it’s possible to make the formulaic and familiar resound fantastically, that concept has evaded these filmmakers here…

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Review of Candyman (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 25 Aug 2021

The new Candyman references the plot of the original as a sinister fanfare of shadow puppets, as if to say, “That was mythology…

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Review of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Aug 2021

Like virtually every stand-alone MCU movie to come before, “Shang-Chi” does a fine job of presenting its hero as a relatable everyman during…

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Review of Habit (2021)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Aug 2021

It’s an embarrassing vanity showcase that’s deliberately campy without actually being fun, and whose stalled-adolescent “transgression”…

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Review of Habit (2021)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Aug 2021

It’s an embarrassing vanity showcase that’s deliberately campy without actually being fun, and whose stalled-adolescent “transgression”…

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Review of The Protégé (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 22 Aug 2021

There’s precious little in The Protégé that audiences haven’t seen before in some form or another, but that’s hardly a liability, since…

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Review of Sweet Girl (2021)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Variety (12,700) on 20 Aug 2021

Aided by Steven Price’s enthusiastic score, Mendoza’s vigorous direction keeps things speeding along, and Momoa is such a charismatic presence…

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Review of The Meaning of Hitler (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 19 Aug 2021

We go into The Meaning of Hitler craving that millimeter of insight, of intrigue and revelation. And the film provides it…

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Review of Demonic (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Aug 2021

At one point, a character in a coma is referred to as having Locked-In Syndrome, which means that she’s still aware of her surroundings but…

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Review of Reminiscence (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Aug 2021

Reminiscence plays like a perfectly calibrated two-hour mirage of things we’ve seen before…

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Review of Zeros and Ones (2021)

By Jay Weissberg (182) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Aug 2021

What Zeros and Ones does do — deliberately, calculatedly, in the kind of messy intuitive manner that’s been the director’s signature…

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Review of The Kissing Booth 3 (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Aug 2021

There’s plenty of fan service (including a whole new list for Elle and Lee to exhaust), but also a late-arriving sense of identity that gives…

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