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Review of Mary Shelley (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Sep 2017

A film desperately in need of an electric charge, Mary Shelley is simply another cinematic corpse on the table…

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Review of Papillon (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Sep 2017

With no unique viewpoint on the story of its own, it’s perplexing why Papillon went in front of cameras at all…

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Review of On Chesil Beach (2018)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Sep 2017

On Chesil Beach makes us consider the lives of the Florence and Edward as outside observers, but rarely takes us inside the complicated mix…

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Review of Borg vs McEnroe (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Sep 2017

Just as many sports movies before have done, and many more will after, Borg/McEnroe shines a light on the sacrifices necessary to achieve…

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Review of West of Sunshine (2018)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 Sep 2017

A drama crafted with precision and feeling, West of Sunshine succeeds admirably with its modest ambitions, as Jason Raftopoulos puts…

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Review of Kill Me Please (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Aug 2017

Silveira sets herself up for a balance between realism and aesthetics that she can’t quite navigate…

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Review of My Cousin Rachel (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 06 Jun 2017

For all the strong performances and able filmmaking, My Cousin Rachel never quite coheres…

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Review of Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 May 2017

While the film never reaches the kind of emotional peaks of James’ best work like “Hoop Dreams” or “The Interrupters,” Abacus…

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Review of Pop Aye (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Apr 2017

There is an eventual reckoning, but one wishes that Tan, at least for these moments, had allowed the film a few more inches of dramatic space…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Feb 2017

A movie with the bleakest vision of Wolverine yet, but also hands down the best treatment the character has received on the big screen in…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Feb 2017

A Cure For Wellness is an exercise in watching a film continually stifle itself at its most compelling moments…

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Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 06 Feb 2017

John Wick: Chapter 2 doesn’t mess with a good thing, expanding the setting as sequels are obligated to do, while firmly sticking to the…

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Review of Dayveon (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Jan 2017

While the surface glance of the film does feature a standard array of American indie signifiers, it’s worth emphasizing again that…

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Review of Things to Come (2016)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Dec 2016

Mostly this is a thrillingly compassionate, deceptively simple, and wholly invested look at a capable older woman with a lively mind coping…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 Nov 2016

With The Tree Of Life the director has once again created a cinematic experience that is uniquely his own, often powerful and mesmerizing,…

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Review of Magnus (2016)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Nov 2016

Magnus is gifted with a tremendous opportunity and mostly squanders it, creating a profile that certainly admires Carlsen, but does little…

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Review of Divines (2016)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Nov 2016

Benyamina displays an empathetic and insightful view of young women, and the challenges of growing up, even if the screenplay doesn’t…

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Review of Rules Don't Apply (2016)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Nov 2016

If its somewhat unfocused narrative comes at the cost of a picture that could be more cohesive and concise, it still gifts viewers with…

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Review of Buster's Mal Heart (2017)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 Oct 2016

In Buster’s Mal Heart, many of the intriguing thematic ideas in the first half of the picture, are left adrift in favor of trying to keep…

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Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 05 Oct 2016

Keeping things on the right side of watchable are the performances, none of which are particularly revelatory, but all of them serving the…

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