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Spider-Man: Far from Home
A review by Darren Franich for Entertainment Weekly2019-06-27
Far From Home succeeds with an unusual, troubling virtue: The best parts are the most fake.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-06-14
The Rolling Thunder Revue was Dylan’s personal magical mystery tour — and in Scorsese’s hands, there’s no shortage of magic or mystery.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Always Be My Maybe
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-05-31
The stuff of a thousand future Twitter gifs, though, is a featured appearance by Keanu Reeves. It’s better not to know too much about his role going in, other than that nearly everything about it has the winking air quotes of a movie star playing directly to his own storied Hollywood history, and that it is for the most part ridiculously fun.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-05-10
I don’t mean to give the impression that John Wick 3 is anything grander than a gorgeously choreographed, gratuitously violent action movie. But as gorgeously choreographed, gratuitously violent action movies go, it’s high art.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-05-02
As the wisecracking voice of Pikachu, Ryan Reynolds deserves some sort of special citation for doing the best he can without Deadpool’s f-bombs (or a decent script) to lean on. But the main problem is that the film’s gumball-mayhem plot is so frenetic that it’s impossible to determine if it makes a lick of sense. Maybe that was the point.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Knock Down the House
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-05-01
Officially, Knock follows four progressive female candidates, though the one who inevitably dominates is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Bronx-bred waitress–turned–congressional unicorn. It’s a lot of fun to ride along on her wildly improbable rise, from slinging margaritas and scooping out ice buckets to taking down one of the most powerful Democrats in the House.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Body at Brighton Rock
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-04-24
It takes a promising premise loaded with white-knuckle, things-go-bump-in-the-night possibilities and proceeds to do surprisingly little with them over the course of its slim 87-minute running time.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Avengers: Endgame
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-04-23
The movie largely delivers, splashing its ambitious three-hour narrative across a sprawling canvas of characters, eras, and not-quite-insurmountable challenges.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Fast Color
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-04-19
Mbatha-Raw brings a fierce, quiet containment to the lead role, and Hart builds so much mood through her atmospheric cinematography and deliberately slow pacing that it nearly papers over the sketched-in quality of the script. Eventually, though, you start to wish her characters would speak in more than just vague koans and disaster-movie platitudes.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Under the Silver Lake
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-04-19
No matter how shaggy and self-indulgent it is, or how anticlimactic its big so-what of an ending ends up being, I was never bored. More than that, I kind of dug its sheer swing-for-the-fences insanity.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
High Life
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-04-05
High Life is, at turns, gorgeous, ridiculous, and confounding. Yet, the more you wrestle with it, the more it haunts you. As for Pattinson, who commits as fully as ever, he can rest easy knowing that he’s left his audience another riddle to chew on.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Unicorn Store
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-04-05
The result is a candy-coated, willfully quirky wisp of a film; like a Michel Gondry fantasy dipped in glitter and rainbow sprinkles.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Ruben Brandt, Collector
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-02-16
It’s a triumph of style over substance. But what style!Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Everybody Knows
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-02-06
If there’s one nit to pick with Everybody Knows, it’s that Farhadi’s films, as excellent as they are, are starting to feel a bit same-y. He’s plying the same family-in-crisis formula he’s worked before. That formula still works like gangbusters, but it’s becoming a formula nonetheless: Happiness and community curdle into paranoia and suspicion.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Piercing
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-01-29
Clocking in at a lean and very mean 81 minutes, writer-director Nicolas Pesce’s follow-up to his grim 2016 black-and-white arthouse chiller "The Eyes of My Mother" is a sick-joke psychological cat-and-mouse game with just enough twists to keep you on your toes.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Velvet Buzzsaw
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-01-28
For a lot of its runtime, Velvet is fun and silly and enjoyably outrageous. It’s hard, though, to walk away with a real sense of anything more than blood on the canvas and a blank where your feelings — beyond mild bemusement, and a sudden appetite for prime Los Angeles real estate — should be.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Close
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-01-17
The twists in Close aren’t very twisty and its thrills aren’t particularly thrilling. But if watching women getting smacked around by cartoon bad guys before finally getting payback is your thing, by all means, have at it.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Fyre
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-01-16
The movie is more than a bonfire of the inanities; it’s a shrewd indictment of a dream gone spectacularly, criminally wrong.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
The Upside
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-01-14
The racial politics feel almost willfully retro, but the actors’ charisma cuts through: Forced to work strictly from the neck up, Cranston is just the right amount of gruff; Hart, aside from a deeply unnecessary catheter scene, gives a gratifyingly prickly and vulnerable performance. Somewhere beneath this passable-enough Upside, there’s a better, sharper movie for them both.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Welcome To Marwen
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2018-12-19
If Marwencol made your heart go out to Mark, Welcome to Marwen does something quite different. It makes you want to back away from him slowly.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly
