Tag: Review
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‘Holiday Heart’ is a Feel-Bad Movie That Wants You to Feel Good
‘Holiday Heart’ positions its title character as an elementally angelic figure forgiving to the point of unbelievability.
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‘Fresh’ is a Fun Canniball Thriller
If Fresh’s plot twist is a shot, then its opening credits are its chaser.
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Peter Falk is the Best Thing About the Otherwise Terrible ‘Undisputed’
The only engaging thing about Walter Hill’s ‘Undisputed,’ an old-fashioned boxing movie, is the climactic fight the rest of the film kills time building up to.
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‘The Batman’ is a Brooding, Stylish Detective Movie
‘The Batman’ is the first good superhero movie in what feels like forever.
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‘Wake in Fright’ is a Terrifying Descent-Into-Madness-Style Horror Movie
This is a horror film mining its terrors purely from the plausible.
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‘I’ll Take You There’ is a Rom-Com That Avoids Convention
‘I’ll Take You There’ never feels less than empathetic.
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‘Made in Hong Kong’: A Breakthrough for Fruit Chan
Made in Hong Kong’s absence of convincing emotional specificity makes it more admirable than truly affecting.
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‘Brown Sugar’ Feels Like a Classic Before You’ve Even Finished It
‘Brown Sugar’ is one of the best romantic comedies of its decade.
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Terror and Transformation in ‘The Cursed’ and ‘Strawberry Mansion’
Diving into a new werewolf movie and a trippy comedy.
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‘Sudden Manhattan’: A Charming Debut from Adrienne Shelly
‘Sudden Manhattan’ is one of the best elucidations of being in your mid-20s and thinking everything is hopeless — including yourself — I’ve seen in a long time.
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‘The Pizza Triangle’ Reminds You That Monica Vitti Was So Much More Than a So-Called Ice Maiden
I unwittingly watched ‘The Pizza Triangle’ the night before Vitti died at the age of 90.
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‘The Unbelievable Truth’ Leaves a Mark
Hartley and Shelly’s partnership might have been fleeting, but the imaginativeness of ‘The Unbelievable Truth’ presses on.
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