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Review of Code 8 (2019)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Dec 2019

Code 8 is better than a mere calling-card film, though one senses a desire to check all the boxes of fan expectation and professional packaging…

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Review of The Great War (2019)

By Tomris Laffly (460) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Dec 2019

The weapons look fake, the stiff action sequences play like poor re-enactments, and you frequently wonder how anyone managed to keep a straight…

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Review of Cunningham (2019)

By Tomris Laffly (460) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Dec 2019

Kovgan’s ode to choreography master Merce Cunningham is sensational in every sense of the word…

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Review of Black Christmas (2019)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Dec 2019

You can’t take a movie like this too seriously, but it’s still one of the rare slasher films that offers a holiday from bloodshed for its…

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Review of 6 Underground (2019)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Dec 2019

It’s certainly not great literature, but if you can get past the imbecilic script, there’s no question that Bay has seized the opportunity…

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Review of Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Dec 2019

More often than not, effects-driven blockbusters get dumber as the series goes along, but Jumanji: The Next Level invents some fun ideas to…

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Review of Bombshell (2019)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Dec 2019

Bombshell is a scalding and powerful movie about what selling, in America, has become…

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Review of Knives and Skin (2019)

By Valerie Complex (58) for Variety (12,700) on 07 Dec 2019

The positive qualities lie in the surrealistic film’s bold cinematography, distinctive use of music, and diversity of cast, though that’s…

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Review of I See You (2019)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Dec 2019

An eerie suspense exercise that starts out looking like a supernatural tale — one of several viewer presumptions this cleverly engineered…

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Review of After Class (2019)

By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Dec 2019

Time and again during After Class, Schechter makes pinpoint-accurate choices that are even more impressive when, after it’s done, you replay…

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Review of Grand Isle (2019)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Dec 2019

A sub-Tennessee Williams potboiler triangle between restless sexpot, impotent husband, and hunky handyman ever-so-slowly congeals into a lumpy…

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Review of Colewell (2019)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Dec 2019

The film’s finely crafted serenity is in keeping with its main character’s secluded state of affairs, and mind…

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Review of Better Days (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Dec 2019

In Derek Kwok Cheung Tsang’s gripping, superbly performed melodrama — a deeply moving if occasionally overwrought exposé of bullying in…

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Review of Away (2019)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Dec 2019

For those with the opportunity to see Away in a theater, the experience will either mesmerize or annoy, as the project feels like a promising…

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Review of Better Days (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Dec 2019

In Derek Kwok Cheung Tsang’s gripping, superbly performed melodrama — a deeply moving if occasionally overwrought exposé of bullying in…

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Review of Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)

By Leslie Felperin (768) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Dec 2019

Although told through a cascade of flashes forward and back, the puzzle doesn't quite form a complete picture by the end, which may leave genre…

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Review of What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Dec 2019

An exquisitely crafted documentary about the woman who was arguably the greatest movie critic who ever lived…

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Review of After Parkland (2019)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Nov 2019

After Parkland has its gun politics, and its aching heart, in the right place, but we need more from a movie about this subject…

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Review of My Friend the Polish Girl (2019)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Nov 2019

The film grabs at so many thematic strands — further including toxic female friendship, urban alienation and abusive sexual manipulation…

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Review of The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Nov 2019

Stands out in a field of generic, cookie-cutter dramas, not simply in terms of representation — though the female-made, indigenous-focused…

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