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Review of Happy End (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 22 Feb 2018

I'm not all that fond of being Haneke's lab rat again…

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Review of Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 15 Feb 2018

An Oscar nomination would have been nice. Just see the movie. It will be more than enough to tell you all you need to know about Annette Bening…

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Review of Phantom Thread (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 18 Jan 2018

Phantom Thread is both a moment for celebration and a moment for mourning…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 12 Jan 2018

Here, from the most capable hands, is a very good movie showing you how the events in that one came to be…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 04 Jan 2018

It is, in truth, very much worth seeing ... for the most obvious reasons…

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Review of All the Money in the World (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 28 Dec 2017

The fact that the movie exists in this final version of its cast is remarkable enough in its way…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 21 Dec 2017

There is, to be sure, nothing remotely new about the story of the beauty and the beast…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 21 Dec 2017

Alexander Payne's Downsizing is a tour-de-force…

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Review of The Greatest Showman (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 21 Dec 2017

The sweetness that makes so much of this better than it probably had a right to be also makes it far from disastrous that it's so much less…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 15 Dec 2017

It's all watchable to those of us in the Skeptics Tribe…

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Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 14 Dec 2017

The writer-director and the performers all seem unhappily trapped in this movie…

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Review of Just Getting Started (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 14 Dec 2017

Among the wisest things ever said about old age will always be the immortal dictum of Bette Davis: Old age ain't for sissies…

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Review of Last Flag Flying (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 22 Nov 2017

Last Flag Flying is a terrific film that allows no self-righteousness from anyone. It's about war veterans in a way we need now…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 22 Nov 2017

The quality of small films currently playing in town is rather extraordinary at this moment. Rejoice that Three Billboards is one of them…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 16 Nov 2017

It isn't nearly as much fun as The Avengers was, but it's not a total loss either, the way Batman vs. Superman was…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 10 Nov 2017

As all the biographies of possible killers pile up and motives along with them, things do slow down before you get to Christie's ending…

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Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 09 Nov 2017

After seeing The Killing of a Sacred Deer you might come to the conclusion that the true victim of the film's pitiless pretension isn't one…

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Review of Suburbicon (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 25 Oct 2017

One true tale that exemplified the time might have helped…

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Review of The Florida Project (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 25 Oct 2017

You'll weep for these kids and try to hope for their future…

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Review of Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 18 Oct 2017

Here, [Landesman] seems to lose all track of Richard Nixon to tell the story of a bitter, conniving passed-over bureaucrat…

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