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The Innkeepers
The film's outcome is even more interesting because Ti West echoes his characters' struggles at a formal level.
by Jesse Cataldo
W.E.
Madonna's W.E.'s is a kind of dynamic pleasure that allows for non-shameful identification with the feminine and a fantasy of becoming what we see.
by Diego Costa
The Woman in Black
A triumph of location scouting, James Watkins's The Woman in Black has a chilly calmness to it that's at least three shades more vivid than Radcliffe's sickly skin tone.
by Ed Gonzalez
Chronicle
Offers up little more than a tired morality play about the dangers of power, rehashing stale insights about the narcissism of the documentary impulse.
by Andrew Schenker
Perfect Sense
Visually glassy and smooth, Perfect Sense values the dynamic mood of each scene without being overly stylized.
by Glenn Heath Jr.
Big Miracle
Any goodwill the film boasts is terminally suppressed, buried beneath a layer of bullshit as thick as blubber.
by R. Kurt Osenlund
Kill List
The ending is so gracelessly ironic that O. Henry himself would have thrown up his hands in disgust.
by Jaime N. Christley
Windfall
Whatever the legitimate arguments Windfall makes against the industry it targets, Meredith's feuding becomes just as inaccessible as the windmills that incite it.
by Joseph Jon Lanthier
Splinters
Adam Pesce never condescends to any of his subjects, but good intentions alone don't make for a captivating movie.
by Chuck Bowen
Pretty Poison
This acidly comic late-'60s noir lets Tuesday Weld's teen queen with a taste for mayhem out-psycho Anthony Perkins.
by Bill Weber
Bad Fever
Rather than express any emotional truth of its own, Dustin Guy Defa's Bad Fever merely adopts an attitude that resembles one.
by Calum Marsh
One for the Money
You could go nuts with the double entendres associated with One for the Money, beginning, of course, with the film's title.
by R. Kurt Osenlund
The Grey
Joe Carnahan's film largely works, building toward a great ending, which functions as one of the best, truest action climaxes in recent memory.
by Jesse Cataldo
Man on a Ledge
Beyond my Big Apple-centric nitpicking, the cheapness is soaked into the material and direction as well.
by Jaime N. Christley
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