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CIRCUS KANE Review

CIRCUS KANE has its handcrafted charms, but the production is penny wise and pound foolish.

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THE EVIL IN US Review

The Evil In Us is a drab and annoying cabin-in-the-woods horror movie where, surprise, the monster was inside of us all along.

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KILL ME PLEASE Review

Kill Me Please works as a well shot story of adolescence, but doesn’t delve far enough into its intriguing premise.

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BUSHWICK Review

Bushwick is an energetic, unflinching look at war on the homefront with some great cinematography and an unforgettable climax.

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ENGLAND IS MINE Review

England is Mine is an uncharacteristically prescient and upfront name for a movie that isn’t even a fraction as bold.

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THE VILLAINESS Review

Two outstanding, seemingly single-take action sequences bookend The Villainess, but the strong first and last impressions can’t make up for a shapeless, meandering middle.

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CLASH Review

CLASH clears away ideological nitpicking in favor of a constrained character study.

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LEAP! Review

The voice performers were all excellent for the most part but didn't have much to work with script wise; I couldn’t say whether this is due to bad writing or cultural/linguistic translations, but the version meant for American audiences was bewildering and bloated to say the least.

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LOGAN LUCKY Review

Logan Lucky strips away the complexities of the genre and frames it around the common man’s hopes for a big score.

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LEMON Review

Janicza Bravo’s debut feature, Lemon, is a triptych of a mediocre man named Isaac (played by Brett Gelman), a stunted man with a deteriorating set of social skills who currently finds himself in a challenging stretch of his life brought on by his inability to think of anyone but himself.

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CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER Review

California Typewriter lives and dies on the visible passion of its interviewees, and the implied passion of its director.