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2014 theatrical releases

The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kvinden i buret) and The Absent One (Fasandraeberne) movies review: good clean nasty Nordic noir

Fri, Apr 15, 2016
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Grim treats, mining suspense and urgency from intensely plotted dual timelines of brutal criminality. A must for fans of rumpled, cynical, bitter detectives.

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Big Eyes movie review: painted into a corner

Wed, Apr 06, 2016
7 comments

A bitter feminist fairy tale about a woman betrayed by love and trust and crafted by culture to be vulnerable to the charms of a con-artist husband.

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Camp X-Ray movie review: all of us behind bars

Mon, Jan 18, 2016
40 comments

Superbly unsettling. Pointedly highlights how incarceration dehumanizes inmate and guard alike. Kristen Stewart’s steeliness is perfectly suited to its ironies.

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Black or White movie rating: yellow light

Mon, May 25, 2015
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This inspired-by-fact tale of the custody battle over a mixed-race grandchildren only just skims the many provocative issues it touches on.

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Top Five movie review: funnyman black-and-blues

Thu, May 07, 2015
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Writer, director, and star Chris Rock is so close to something great here, but he gives in too easily to the unchallenging and the very conventional.

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Still Alice movie review: a true horror movie

Tue, Apr 28, 2015
7 comments

Julianne Moore’s terror at watching her own emotional and intellectual life slip away is palpable, and much scarier to me than any slasher movie.

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown movie review: self-slashing

Wed, Apr 15, 2015
4 comments

This isn’t only another rote slasher movie, full of ridiculous coincidences and obvious red herrings: it’s actually worse than that, yet thinks it’s clever.

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John Wick movie review: deadly dancing

Fri, Apr 10, 2015
17 comments

Funky-elegant, weirdly funny, visually intoxicating. I love this movie so much for how it’s different about being more of the same old stuff we always love.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night movie review: blood pressure

Tue, Mar 31, 2015
4 comments

The Iranian skateboarding vampire feminist spaghetti western we have all been waiting for, creepy cool and gorgeously sinister, engorged with suspense and desire.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel movie review: best exotic nonsense

Wed, Mar 11, 2015
4 comments

A grownup storybook of a movie spun out of candy-colored nonsense that challenges you to embrace its falseness and deny its romance.

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