Documentary Dossier: FRESH DRESSED
A commerce-drenched narrative of the rise and fall of “for us by us” brands (FUBU, Mecca, Ecko) in the second half strips the film of some of its momentum, as…
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Out in Theaters: A LITTLE CHAOS
I wish I had better things to say about A Little Chaos. It finds a strong female protagonist in De Barra, who Winslett plays with assuredness and power. But the…
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Out in Theaters: MAX
And for all its shortcomings, the rehabilitated dog story at the heart of the piece is ultimately winning. (Max’s actual offscreen handlers deserve major points for running him through a…
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Out in Theaters: REVERSAL
It’s not that Tina Ivlev is terrible so much as her scenes seem rushed and “first take”. Richard Tyson gets out a hair better, but similarly fails to overcome the…
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Out in Theaters: THE STRONGEST MAN
An emotionally resonant win for faux-cinéma vérité (with a surprise cameo from nerd prince Freddie Wong), The Strongest Man becomes occasionally untacked by amateur bits of visual collage work, the…
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Out in Theaters: ADVANTAGEOUS
The appearance of Ken Jeong on the cast list comes as a major red flag though he ends up the least to blame for the frequent failures of Advantageous. The…
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Out in Theaters: INSIDE OUT
A last act reunion once again turned my face soggy, leaving me all the more inclined to stick through the (increasingly hysterical) mid-credits stinger that dives into the inner-workings of…
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Documentary Dossier: THE WOLFPACK
The Angulo brothers are surprisingly articulate, self-aware, creative and empathetic - characteristics that may come as a surprise; by the conclusion of the film, it feels as though we have…
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Out in Theaters: SPY
In large part due to smarmy secondary characters the likes of Law, Statham and Bryne, Spy does slip in some low laughs, sometimes even at the hands of McCarthy. And…
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Out in Theaters: INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3
I would say the bloom is off the rose but that honor went out the window in the second act of the first film. Everything since Shaye walked through the…