"director #JormaTaccone evidently thinks that seeing someone's head get blown in half is a punchline and it could be if violent escalation wasn't all this movie has going for it." #OverYourDeadBody #JasonSegel #SamaraWeaving #TimothyOlyphant #JulietteLewis
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#RobertAramayo won Best Actor for #ISwear at the BAFTAs..."Davidson's story is an important one, a call for tolerance and understanding of a syndrome that may not be easy to be around, unleashing uninformed abuse, but one which also has no known cure."
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On Reeling #890 Laura and Robin review #ISwear, #TheChristophers, #Normal, #TheStranger, #Wasteman,
#Exit8, #FacesofDeath and #Hamlet
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#Nobody and "John Wick" screenwriter Derek Kolstad serves up a modern Western that plays like the last act of the John Wick "Ballerina" spinoff crossed with "Fargo," but while its action tropes are familiar, #BenWheatley stages them with flair #BobOdenkirk
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"Soderbergh delivers his best film since "Traffic." Casting Coel and McKellen was inspired, two actors of different generations and backgrounds who are simply dazzling paired together." #TheChristophers #StevenSoderbergh #IanMcKellen #MichaelaCoel
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Composer Fatima Al Qadiri combines Middle Eastern instruments and synthesizer to eerie, haunting effect, a call to something other than prayer. With his adaptation, Ozon has created the definitive cinematic version of the existentialist classic. #TheStranger
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"an emotional knockout....Sopé Dìrísù rises to the immense challenge of portraying this man determined to right his own father's wrongs" #MyFather'sShadow #SopéDìrísù
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"Schilinski's generational family trauma reverberates through one German farmhouse, cinematographer Fabian Gamper's camera the ghostly presence that glides around it as editor Evelyn Rack seamlessly weaves back and forth among different eras" #SoundOfFalling
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Genki Kawamura's addition of a psychological basis for the lost man's plunge into an endless loop of an underground subway corridor isn't integrated into his adaptation of the video game well enough to make its rules representative of his conundrum #Exit8
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flawed, especially in its muted first half, but builds into a fiery finish ignited by the contemporary Kathak dance which indicts Claudius at his wedding reception. #HamletFilm #Hamlet #RizAhmed #MorfyddClark #ArtMalik #SheebaChaddha #TimothySpall #AneilKaria
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"could and should have been so much better. Dacre Montgomery's Arthur, the killer in the white stocking mask, is chilling...Barbie Ferreira keeps us on her side even as the script betrays her" #FacesOfDeath #BarbieFerreira #DacreMontgomery
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"shows us a playful #SatyajitRay working on a global stage while still exposing the class injustices of his home country. Janus's 4K restoration release of this 1970 film deserves celebration." #DaysAndNightsInTheForest
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On Reeling #889 Laura and Robin review #TheDrama, #FantasyLife, #MyFather'sShadow, #SoundofFalling,
#DaysandNightsintheForest 4K restoration rerelease, #MarcbySofia, #MiroirsNo.3
and #TheAIDocOrHowIBecameanApocaloptimist.
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"an enjoyable, low key work about two people with similar hang-ups drifting into each others' lives then out of them again, but it's given Amanda Peet a role to embrace and hers is a welcome return." #FantasyLifeFilm #AmandaPeet #JuddHirsch #AndreaMartin
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Borgli has specialized in a type of dark comedy where people's worst impulses spiral out of control. But while that is also true of his latest, what he's pinned on Emma is a really questionable choice to mine for comedy. #TheDrama #Zendaya #RobertPattinson
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"...this one is coming from shared experience and has the aesthetic of a scrapbook, memories and cultural signifiers laid out like fabric swatches on a designer's work table." #MarcJacobs #MarcbySofia #SofiaCoppola
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"won't tell anyone who's read anything at all about the subject anything new, instead appearing to be a documentary essay to ease the filmmaker's own anxieties...and it sure didn't make me an apocaloptimist." #TheAIDoc #DanielRoher #Apocaloptimist
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"a most peculiar ghost story, a case of post-trauma shifting identities told with humor, heart and a dash of mystery...may have a light touch, but its psychology digs deep." #MiroirsNo.3 #ChristianPetzold #PaulaBeer
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"Triplets of Belleville's" #SylvainChomet employs his distinct animation style of hand drawn, exaggerated characterizations cast in autumnal nostalgia to bring decades of one of France's most prolific literary figures to life. #AMagnificentLife #MarcelPagnol
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"Mackay displays a similar sensibility to "I Saw the TV Glow's" Jane Schoenbrun with themes of finding one's identity, a nostalgia for 90's television and love of shocking pink." #TheSerpentsSkin #BUFF26 #AliceMaioMackay
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"Michael Almereyda's 1994 take on "Dracula's Daughter" has received a stunning 4K director's cut restoration, the better to admire the visages of Romanian actress #ElinaLöwensohn and 'whatever-happened-to' #GalaxyCraze, this film's love interest Lucy..." #Nadja
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"...appears to be a labor of love, but Jonathan Keasey & Brant Boivin's ripped-from-the-headlines screenplay bogs down its pacing with too many details which don't matter much in the overall scheme of things." #TowMovie #RoseByrne #DemiLovato #OctaviaSpencer
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35th anniversary show! On Reeling #888 Laura and Robin review #ProjectHailMaryMovie, #AMagnificentLife, #Tow, #Nadja 4K restoration rerelease, #BUFF26, #TheSerpent'sSkin, #ThePout-PoutFishMovie, #undertone and #Slanted. #moviereviews
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""The Lego Movie" directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller seem unsure if they're making a cutesy derivative space adventure or a serious scientific exploration, tonal schizophrenia exacerbated by an excessive run time." #ProjectHailMaryMovie #RyanGosling
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"Ricard Cussó and Rio Harrington keep the brightly animated action swimming in directions that should delight the kids while
writers...adapt Deborah Diesen's children's book with some clever and subversive humor for adults." #ThePout-PoutFishMovie
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"documentary begins with zaniness, incorporating everything from game shows to toilet POV shots, gradually leaning into harsh reality...André lived life well, serving up his death as a helpful and humorous warning to the rest of the human race." #AndréIsAnIdiot
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crosses the generational conflicts facing immigrant families found in such films as Neon's 2023 horror outing "It Lives Inside" with The Twilight Zone's 'Number 12 Looks Just Like You' and a dash of "Mean Girls" to explore racial inequality in America. #Slanted
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"Feature debuting writer/director Ian Tuason exhibits artful visual and aural technique in a film that builds suspense without offering much in the way of payoff." #undertone #horrormovie #IanTuason
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"Cinematographer Justin Derry achieves a 70's look shooting on 16mm and the film's trailer goes heavy on the "Texas Chainsaw" influence, but Blackhurst offers gore instead of scares in a film that is merely unpleasant. Even the dolls aren't creepy" #Dolly
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On Reeling #887 Laura and Robin review #Sirât, #Hoppers, #AndréIsanIdiot, #LateShift, #Dolly,
#Heel (formerly "Good Boy"), #Hamnet 4K UHD Blu-ray collector's edition and #Dreams. #moviereviews
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