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Review of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Feb 2021

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is a capricious and touching surrealist kiddie ride that, in its sugar-high way, is as much a celebration…

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Review of Tom & Jerry (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Feb 2021

No, Tom & Jerry won’t be winning any Oscars, even if Hanna-Barbera shorts in which they starred racked up seven during the series’ 1940-58…

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Review of Cherry (2021)

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

There’s hardly a moment in Cherry that’s believable, but the film’s true crime is that there’s hardly a moment in it that’s enjoyable…

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Review of Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry (2021)

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

I’d call it a deftly sincere and canny portrait, one that works precisely because it takes the time to sweat the small stuff…

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Review of Shepherds and Butchers (2017)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Feb 2021

Dowds’ harrowed, haunted performance as a boy overwhelmed not just by the wolves to which he has been thrown, but the ones he claims have…

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Review of Red Road (2006)

By Leslie Felperin (768) for Variety (12,700) on 20 Feb 2021

Sensual, dark in every sense, but a touch derivative, Red Road reps an impressive feature debut for Brit writer-helmer Andrea Arnold, an Oscar-winner…

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Review of Silk Road (2021)

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

A fervently topical, at times intriguing, but ultimately rather sketchy drama about the online black market…

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Review of The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

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

This is gripping stuff, to be sure, yet the movie, volatile as it is, lacks a full dramatic center and the momentum that would flow out of it…

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Review of Test Pattern (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Feb 2021

Test Pattern — tiny, sedate yet urgent — is like the tinkling of a warning bell that somehow signals the five-alarm fire of ingrained racism,…

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Review of Flora & Ulysses (2021)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Feb 2021

Pudi plays officer Miller like one of the cocky cops from “Reno 911!” laughably tough-acting behind his tinted aviator specs…

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Review of Adverse (2021)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2021

The very best thing in the entire movie is Rourke’s surprisingly affecting and consistently riveting portrayal of Kaden as a melancholy monster…

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Review of A Writer's Odyssey (2021)

By Richard Kuipers (66) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2021

“Odyssey” is packed with stunning sights including a 50-ft., four-armed CGI villain but is let down by a script that fails to fashion promising…

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Review of Sator (2019)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2021

Anyone can pull off a jump scare or three…

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Review of Willy's Wonderland (2021)

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

Willy’s Wonderland has the garish stop-and-go rhythm of an ’80s slasher film, and I mean that as a compliment…

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Review of Life in a Day 2020 (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Feb 2021

Life in a Day 2020 is quick to fall back on tidy montage methods — grouped shots of babies being born, skydivers jumping from planes, believers…

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Review of Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)

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

It’s the bright and daffy absurdist spinoff that these weren’t-but-could-have-been-sketch-comedy characters deserve, and it feels, in its…

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Review of To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)

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

Incidentally, the big payoff of this film isn’t what becomes of Lara Jean and Peter’s fates, but getting to see the supporting cast blossom…

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Review of The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

By Courtney Howard (393) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Feb 2021

The feature’s genteel, sweet spirit and radiant lead performances rescue it from forgettable mediocrity and genre familiarity…

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Review of Little Fish (2021)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Feb 2021

A portrait of life’s impermanence, it’s a bittersweet small-scale saga whose occasional sluggishness is offset by its sensitivity…

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Review of Son of the South (2021)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Feb 2021

Brown’s well-crafted and period-persuasive biopic strikes a dramatically sound and emotionally satisfying balance between the moral awakening…

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