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October 25, 2016
Tim Grierson
,
Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 40:
Moonlight
,
Jack Reacher
,
Weekend at Bernie’s
October 21, 2016
Will Leitch
Jack Reacher
: Tom Cruise’s Last Action Hero
Seemingly done with chasing serious roles, Cruise would rather have his fans remember him as a running, jumping, punching machine.
October 20, 2016
Will Leitch
Moonlight
: The Path Not Taken
Barry Jenkins's beautiful, sympathetic film is one of the best of the year.
October 19, 2016
Scott Tobias
Kelly Reichardt’s Uncertain Lives
The director has made a career populating her films with characters that choose the difficult path in life.
October 18, 2016
Tim Grierson
,
Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 39:
The Accountant
,
Christine,
and
Pink Floyd: The Wall
October 15, 2016
Will Leitch
The Accountant
: Good Will Hunted
Ben Affleck stars in what should be a straight-ahead thriller, but the film keeps tripping over its own incompetent feet.
October 13, 2016
Tim Grierson
Christine
: Her Final Sign-Off
This indie drama about the life and death of newscaster Christine Chubbuck succeeds because of the answers it doesn’t provide.
October 11, 2016
Tim Grierson
,
Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 38:
The Birth of a Nation
and
L.A Confidential
October 7, 2016
Will Leitch
The Girl on the Train
: An Unreliable Director
This adaptation of the bestselling book is hazy in a way that’s more confusing than intriguing.
October 6, 2016
Tim Grierson
The Birth of a Nation
’s Blunt-Force Trauma
The Sundance sensation may not be great art, but its snarling urgency makes it a movie for our times.
October 4, 2016
Tim Grierson
,
Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 37:
American Honey
,
Deepwater Horizon
, and
Barry Lyndon
October 3, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
Is Nate Parker really trying to be better?
September 30, 2016
Will Leitch
Deepwater Horizon
: Fire on the Water
Peter Berg has become the go-to director for the explosive, based-on-a-true story drama.
September 29, 2016
Tim Grierson
American Honey
and the Hard-Knock Life
In Andrea Arnold’s remarkable drama, the American underclass is seen with bracing clarity, insight, and compassion.
September 27, 2016
Tim Grierson
,
Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 36:
The Magnificent Seven
and
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
September 26, 2016
Magazine
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
The Philosopher and Her Camera
Ava DuVernay made history with Selma. Now, in two new films, she’s taking on America’s prison system—and tesseracting through the universe.
September 22, 2016
Will Leitch
The Magnificent Seven
: How the West Was No Fun
The remake of of the remake of Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Seven Samurai,’ loses the thread of its one-clever twist.
September 20, 2016
Will Leitch
,
Tim Grierson
Grierson & Leitch Episode 35:
Snowden
,
Blair Witch
, and
Bullitt
September 17, 2016
Stacia L. Brown
The Myth of the “Race Card”
Solange Knowles, Zendaya Coleman, and the perils of being a black woman who speaks up.
September 16, 2016
Will Leitch
Blair Witch
: Into the Woods, This Time With Drones
The sequel to the 1999 faux-documentary is just another shaky-cam, heavy-breathing, run through the darkness.
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