The continued cutaways back to Earth effectively de-pressurize Slingshot’s main plotline.
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For better and worse, you can tell that The Wasp was initially written for the stage.
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The film somehow shows its hand too early and plays its cards too close to its chest.
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Silver and his two stars discuss their endlessly rewarding collaborative process.
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Woo’s old-school methods are in full effect, but they lose their elegance on digital.
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Only the third-act showdown inside an opera house elevates this mostly uninspired remake.
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Death Will Come is a conspicuously de-glamorized tale of violent characters on society’s fringes.
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The way Nora Fingscheidt captures two modes of life is one of the film’s greatest strengths.
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This tale of spiritual and neo-colonial exploitation is unfocused and unrelentingly somber.
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This cunningly devised thriller wields our assumptions against us like a sharp implement.
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