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WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY Review

Wild Nights with Emily poses fascinating questions on how popular understandings in history are formed and often manipulated.

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YARDIE Review

Inspired direction can’t save Yardie from a formulaic script.

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THE QUAKE Review

Though the movie is capable, it’s missing the extra push to keep it away from using to the familiar tropes it wants to avoid.

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FAIL STATE Review

Shebanow’s driving energy is always apparent although sometimes it’s left, frustratingly, just out of reach.

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FIRST MAN Review

It’s a movie with an unwavering faith in the lessons we can learn from the past, but it shuns inappropriate nostalgia or uncritical revisionism.

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SADIE Review

Sadie is, above all, a meditation on life spent without access: to money, to answers, to safe outlets for confusion and anger.

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TEA WITH THE DAMES Review

The film’s greatest asset is its ability to convey the lively spirit of the conversations without feeling selective or artificially emphasizing points, beyond spare bursts of archival footage or the occasional question posed from Michell himself.

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COLD WATER Criterion Blu-ray Review

Cold Water is an absorbing, pensive look at what such desires feel like on the inside, with its handheld close-ups on faces and careful observance at objects and structures, as if to seek answers from everything in equal measure.

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OPERATION FINALE Review

Operation Finale is the historical film at its most safely crafted, even as individual production elements, such as Alexandre Desplat’s pushy score – heavy on everything from marimbas to choirs – suggest departures from a cookie-cutter approach that aren’t reflected onscreen.

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THE WILD BOYS Review

It’s the kind of enigmatic art that contains multitudes but ultimately speaks for itself.

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CRAZY RICH ASIANS Review

Crazy Rich Asians is a work of pure intent and wide potential, utilizing Hollywood’s most popular, time-tested devices and razzmatazz with a wise and lovely embrace.

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TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE Review

As we finally expunge the traumatic memories of The Kissing Booth from our minds, Netflix has delivered To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, a teen comedy just as formulaic, but significantly less appalling.

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