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STREAMING · KANOPYSundance Review: RESULTS
Stilted and knowingly jumpy editing leaves general logic gaps polluting Result's saggy middle section, jettisoning its characters into convoluted triangular form and forcing them…
STREAMING · PRIME VIDEOSundance Review: PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS
If there's anything holding People, Places, Things back it's how slight it all feels - another solid entry into the increasingly salient category of…
STREAMING · PRIME VIDEOSundance Review: LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT
García delivers some surprisingly compelling, though sleepy, material for a "Jesus in the Desert" art film but his post-screening testaments that this is a…
STREAMING · AMC+Sundance Review: THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT
All the authenticity The Stanford Prison Experiment brings to the table establishes an alarming, visceral sense of reality but is also accountable for a…
STREAMING · THE ROKU CHANNELSundance Review: DIGGING FOR FIRE
Each half of the couple contents with the ghost of their old selves, opening doors that uncover new demons. Problem is, those doors sometimes…
STREAMING · NETFLIXSundance Review: SLOW WEST
Robbie Ryan's cinematography adds a ton to the picture as well. His painterly touch is frequently stunning, becoming a star of the show in…
STREAMING · PRIME VIDEOSundance Review: 99 HOMES
Wheeling into the last act, motivations get fuzzy and a touch overwrought. Dern's final minutes on film are without ample justification as Garfield is…
STREAMING · NETFLIXSundance Review: SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE
Lines between friendship and relationship become palpably blurred - a fact that circumstantial BFF Xander (Jason Mantzoukas) is happy to point out - as…
STREAMING · AMC+Sundance Review: JAMES WHITE
Mond keeps things simple in order to showcase the developing relationship arcs - the twentysomething deadbeat manning up, the caregiver role inevitably transplanted from…
STREAMING · THE ROKU CHANNELSundance Review: THE OVERNIGHT
The final result is both articulate and insightful, an uncommonly honest look at adult sexuality and the bargaining chips that married couples exchange. It's…
STREAMING · KANOPYSundance Review: Z FOR ZACHARIAH
As it comes to a close, Z fails to ever truly erupt. Rather, it offers a major turn sans clarity. That ambiguity is Zobel's…
STREAMING · PRIME VIDEOSundance Review: THE WITCH
When the family snaps under the pressure of internal and external presses, it's anyone's game and you'll want to behold the result. The fact…
STREAMING · NETFLIXSundance Review: THE END OF THE TOUR
Danny Elfman drives the whole thing home with a score that elevates Ponsoldt's emotional arches with heartfelt panache. The result is a soaring independent…
STREAMING · PRIME VIDEOSundance Review: A WALK IN THE WOODS
Unabashedly sentimental and overtly geared towards the elderly folks in the audience, the overly tender Kwapis filters his comic sensibility through an aggressively broad…
STREAMING · DISNEY+Out in Theaters: INTO THE WOODS
The cast is admittedly stellar - Anna Kendrick, Corden, Blunt, Pine and, to a lesser degree, Streep all own their numbers, even if I…
STREAMING · KANOPYOut in Theaters: THE IMITATION GAME
In 1952, Alan Turing was convicted of gross indecency due to the investigation that bookends the film. In trying to prove that Turing was…
Out in Theaters: FOXCATCHER
Some people collect stamps. Others Beanie Babies. John du Pont wanted to collect talent. He wanted to bunch it all up in his verdant…
STREAMING · HBO MAXOut in Theaters: THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
From the humble (boring) beginnings of An Unexpected Journey to the foot-dragging musings of Desolation of Smaug, Jackson and Co. have depended upon a…
STREAMING · PRIME VIDEOOut in Theaters: EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
To watch Exodus is to endure exodus. At 150 mins, it's easily one of the most taxing films of the year and surely one…
Out in Theaters: FOXCATCHER (2)
Some people collect stamps. Others Beanie Babies. John du Pont wanted to collect talent. He wanted to bunch it all up in his verdant…
STREAMING · PARAMOUNT+Out in Theaters: HORRIBLE BOSSES 2
Yes, Jennifer Aniston and her carnal explicitness busted my gut. Pine proved (yet again) that maybe comedy is what he was made for. And…
STREAMING · HULUOut in Theaters: THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1
But this is not a fun movie. Nor is it really geared towards kids. In the third outing of Hunger Games, you're more likely…
STREAMING · DISNEY+Out in Theaters: BIG HERO 6
Big Hero 6 is like a Nilla Wafer; yummy going down but nothing to write home about. It's funny and entertaining in a bland,…
STREAMING · PRIME VIDEOOut in Theaters: INTERSTELLAR
With Interstellar, Nolan rages against the dying of the light, but like a theater minor without the proper know-how, he rages just a little…
