Film Review: Last Flag Flying

Richard Linklater is unpredictable. One glance through his filmography proves that he’s a visionary who has never relegated himself ..

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Film Review: Lady Bird

The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The pop songs from ..

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Film Review: The Square

Navigating the nexus of hype, commerce, ego, and bullshit that drives the modern art scene, The Square is almost too perfect in its cunning ..

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Film Review: Creep 2

“I think I might be deeply untalented,” Sara (Desiree Akhavan) weeps into the camera early into Creep 2. Who is Sara? Why is she crying? ..

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Film Review: Suburbicon

The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. If you’ve ever ..

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Film Review: The Snowman

To quote Michael Fassbender’s Detective Harry Hole, “I know how much you want this, but you can’t force the pieces to fit.” ..

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Film Review: Jane

The archival footage used in Jane, Brett Morgen’s documentary portrait of the groundbreaking primatologist Jane Goodall, is impressive ..

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Film Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The latest provocation ..

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Film Review: The Foreigner

In a time where the aged action star is experiencing a curious renaissance (Liam Neeson in Taken, Harrison Ford’s various ’80s ..

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Film Review: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Family’s a bitch. Family’s work. Family’s life. There’s a weight to our loved ones that is both tough and obdurate, ..

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Film Review: Blade Runner 2049

Whether you love it or hate it, Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner set the standard for fog-enshrouded science fiction dystopias, ..

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Film Review: American Made

American Made is based on a true story, and it’s crucial that the film establishes this from its earliest moments onward, as it’s ..

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Film Review: Woodshock

Grief constitutes its own kind of madness, in the way that it disorients and blinds, in how it rotates one’s daily world off its axis ..

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TIFF Film Review: Long Time Running

The following review is part of our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. There’s a throwaway lyric in “Long ..

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TIFF Film Review: I Love You, Daddy

The following review is part of our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The r-word gets tossed around a few times ..

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TIFF Film Review: Lady Bird

The following review is part of our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The pop songs from your youth have a powerful ..

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Film Review: Mother!

Mother! is not a film that allows for a great deal of middle ground in opinion or interpretation. But then, few would accuse Darren Aronofsky ..

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TIFF Film Review: Downsizing

The following review is part of our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Most of us, at least once in our lifetimes, ..

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Film Review: Dayveon

The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Dayveon begins with the titular ..

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TIFF Film Review: Suburbicon

The following review is part of our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering ..

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TIFF Film Review: Happy End

The following review is part of our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Happy End is bookended by a series of Snapchats ..

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TIFF Film Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The following review is part of our coverage of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The latest provocation from Greek auteur Yorgos ..

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Film Review: Lemon

Roughly halfway through Lemon, a Mexican nanny named Rosa (Elizabeth De Razzo) tells a story about her brother, a man who entered an “old ..

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Film Review: Patti Cake$

The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Patti Cake$ is a rags-to-riches ..

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Film Review: Naked

Butts are funny. No, wait, please don’t close that tab. This is going somewhere. Butts are round, essential to the body, and yet rarely ..

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Film Review: Whose Streets?

Whose Streets? adopts a broad scope in its portrait of Ferguson, Missouri, after an act of police violence thrust the modest southern town ..

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Film Review: Wind River

Wind River is the latest extension of Taylor Sheridan’s ongoing quest to examine some of America’s most embattled corners and the dignity ..

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Film Review: Detroit

Over the past decade, Kathryn Bigelow has repurposed her skills in the arena of action filmmaking in service of a new kind of political ..

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Film Review: Menashe

Self-improvement is hard, and it’s nigh impossible in a time of profound grief. For Menashe (Menashe Lustig), however, there’s ..

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Film Review: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Just over a decade ago now, An Inconvenient ..

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Film Review: A Ghost Story

The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. A Ghost Story might have a ghost ..

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Film Review: The Little Hours

As comic adaptations of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron go, The Little Hours takes a modern approach to one of the many vignettes ..

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Film Review: Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press

The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free ..

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Film Review: Berlin Syndrome

The following review has been published as part of our coverage of the Chicago Critics Film Festival. Hooking up is fun. It’s scary. ..

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Film Review: Get Me Roger Stone

Roger Stone couldn’t care less if you hate him. The agent provocateur and self-proclaimed Prince of Darkness of American politics, ..

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Film Review: The Lost City of Z

The Lost City of Z is based on a 2009 nonfiction book by David Grann, and if it weren’t established that the majority of what takes ..

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Film Review: Your Name

Each morning, Taki (Ryûnosuke Kamiki) wakes up feeling like something’s missing. It’s not a feeling he can articulate ..

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Film Review: Win It All

The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2017 South By Southwest Film Festival. Addiction is brutal, ..

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