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Review of Werewolves Within (2021)

By Tomris Laffly (460) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Jun 2021

Maintaining a lean sense of suspense throughout, the scribe fashions all her characters with memorable attributes and plenty of social observations,…

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Review of Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Jun 2021

It’s a pleasure to spend an hour and a half in the resurrected company of these two intellects, but the experience feels like the lazy alternative…

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Review of Fatherhood (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Jun 2021

It transitions Hart from playfully scowling cutup to earnest heartfelt actor, and it does so in a way that, at times, is genuinely touching,…

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Review of Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)

By Chris Willman (63) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Jun 2021

Coming away from “Just a Girl,” it’s impossible not to be convinced that Moreno is the rare screen legend who found a way to stick the…

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Review of Gaia (2021)

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

Gaia’s resourceful visuals, however, aren’t matched by equivalent nimbleness in the writing; after a time, the storytelling feels more…

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Review of 12 Mighty Orphans (2021)

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

It’s all engineered to pay off in familiar ways, though the movie isn’t quite as predictable as you might think…

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Review of Luca (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Jun 2021

Luca, set in Italy in the ’50s, is modest to a fault, and at times it feels generic enough to be an animated feature from almost any studio…

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Review of Akilla's Escape (2021)

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

Williams’ effortless, near-otherworldly presence gives Akilla’s Escape all the grace and mystique it requires; the film strains a little…

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Review of At the Ready (2021)

By Tomris Laffly (460) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Jun 2021

An unsettling, often tender and thoroughly well-timed film…

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Review of Ma Belle, My Beauty (2021)

By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Jun 2021

In this triangulated love story there is more roiling it than just desire…

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Review of Sabaya (2021)

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

Sabaya is remarkable not least for how cleanly Hirori excises himself from it, careful to not get in between the viewer and these devastating…

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Review of The Amusement Park (1975)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Jun 2021

Shot on delightfully grainy 16mm and featuring a cast of nonprofessional actors, the film is so alluringly disorienting that, by its end, some…

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Review of Wish Dragon (2021)

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

Wish Dragon delivers a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view, and that’s plenty…

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Review of Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Jun 2021

The film presents a psychological, almost novelistic portrait of how Bourdain evolved as a person during the years of his celebrity…

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Review of Awake (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Jun 2021

Awake is bonkers in a fun way from time to time . . . but gives the distinct impression that the most interesting crises are happening off screen…

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Review of The Misfits (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Jun 2021

The movie feels like both an advertisement for this posh, ultra-modern oasis and a late-20th-century smear of the people and culture one might…

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Review of Skater Girl (2021)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Jun 2021

It’s as uplifting and threadbare as a feel-good viral video stretched to feature length, yet Makijany’s ability to rally the troops, get…

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Review of Infinite (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Jun 2021

The more you start to nitpick this movie, the more innumerable its plot holes appear, until the whole thing collapses in on itself…

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Review of Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Jun 2021

So is it, you know, fun? At times it is; at others it’s exhausting. Let’s call the whole thing fun-xhausting…

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Review of Holler (2021)

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

The film’s texture is in the details. There’s nothing glamorous about this kind of subsistence, and nothing invented…

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