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AWFJ 2024 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Jan 09, 2025
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The Brutalist, Conclave, and The Substance are the big winners…

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daily stream: while you’re waiting to learn how to blow up a pipeline…

Sat, Apr 08, 2023
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2014’s Night Moves is on Fandor in the US, Mubi in the UK, and lots of other services on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Now You See Me 2 movie review: now you don’t

Fri, Jul 08, 2016
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The delicately balanced foolishness of Now You See Me gives way to impossibly supernatural magic tricks aimed at thwarting the least menacing villain ever.

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Louder Than Bombs movie review: good grief?

Mon, May 02, 2016
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Yet another installment in the long-running series Dead Women Make Men Feel Things. Seething with unspoken emotions, all of which are elusive and abstruse.

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie review: sucker punch

Mon, Mar 28, 2016
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Like a movie from the world of Watchmen: cold, cruel, borderline incoherent in its testosterone-fueled rage, misogynist, paternalistic… fascist, even.

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American Ultra movie review: Bourne to lose

Fri, Sep 04, 2015
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It’s one joke dragged out for 90 minutes, and while it’s not entirely unamusing, the comedy feels mired in the same stoner fog as its slacker protagonist.

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Night Moves movie review (Birds Eye View Film Festival)

Tue, Apr 15, 2014
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Kelly Reichardt cements her reputation as one of the most provocative American indie filmmakers with this quiet, tense thriller of morality and motive.

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The Double review: now you see him… again

Fri, Apr 04, 2014
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A painfully funny odyssey of personal ineffectualness that is bitterly wonderful in how it revels in the decrepit horror of the everyday world.

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Rio 2 review: jungle feeble

Thu, Apr 03, 2014
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This is what passes for a children’s movie these days: a 1950s sitcom drawn in pretty tropical CGI colors with a few mostly forgettable songs tossed in.

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The Double and Enemy trailers: doppelganger movies

Wed, Feb 26, 2014
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Two movies about a man who discovers he has an identical double, and the identical double is up to no good. Is someone trying to drive movie lovers crazy?

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