Film Reviews
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Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
The film's sardonic extremity makes an impression but also restrains it from achieving a more resonant commentary and investigation on modern news.
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Jealousy (Philippe Garrel)
This uniquely concise take on family and memory focuses on the strained relations between Parisian couples.
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Young & Beautiful (François Ozon)
Attempting to subvert the voyeuristic gaze and cautionary coming-of-age moralizing, the film is an unconventionally compelling if conflicted seasonal portrait.
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The Longest Week (Peter Glanz)
Beyond homage
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Life Itself (Steve James)
Exhaustive yet intimate, the film is a cluttered but moving tribute to the most lauded figure in film criticism.
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Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski)
Empowered by an elegant simplicity, the concise film sensorially conveys a coming-of-age story in early 1960s Poland.
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Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
12 years in the making and shot with a cast who aged alongside the film's production, Richard Linklater's narrative experiment is a warm and compassionate portrayal of growing up.
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Cold In July (Jim Mickle)
Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) stars in Jim Mickle's thriller which follows the life of Richard Dane after he makes a devastating decision when he comes face to face with an intruder. Based on the novel by Joe R. Lansdale, Don Jonson and Sam Shepard co-star.
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Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
Male sexuality and nature are bedfellows in this explicit erotic thriller that lacks the necessary character psychology to match the haunting qualities of its lakeshore imagery.
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Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier)
A revenge thriller that is everything an independent film is supposed to be.
Alan Shulman reviews
