“It’s a beautiful cross between Inglourious Basterds and Tom and Jerry, and never fails to be an utter delight.”
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“…I worry that one of my favorite working directors might have reached his dog days.”
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“…’Predator: Badlands’ is an action-adventure blockbuster that serves as the saga’s biggest, boldest, and most ambitious entry yet.”
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A late dispatch on the 44th Vancouver International Film Festival.
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There are flashes of brilliance, and those flashes are beautiful, but for every transcendent shot of the beast traversing the arctic fields as the orange sun burns behind him, we get a clumsy depiction of badly rendered CGI wolves or video game-like bodies being thrown by the beast…it all looks a bit Netflix.
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“The juxtaposition between the personal and the collective in My Father’s Shadow is essential.”
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“Through [Dwayne Johnson’s] performance, you believe in more than just his strength - you believe in his vulnerability.“
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“Be prepared to laugh and cry and everything in between…”
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“The film was not made with mainstream appeal in mind. Early knows his audience and plays hard for them.”
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“Panahi employs few, if any, flashy camera moves or tricks, instead relying on long takes with a relatively stationary camera. This allows most of the focus to remain on the characters, who have differing proposals on how to escape their quagmire.”
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“‘Noviembre’ is an astonishing work of filmmaking, and one of the best not just of TIFF, but of the year so far.”
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