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Review of Dune (2021)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 03 Sep 2021

Audiences deserve to see the conclusion of an action film so immaculately crafted and patiently paced, one that's more focused on inspiring…

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Review of Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 Jul 2021

If the assignment was to rebuild the series largely from scratch essentially, perhaps the producers should have taken a risk by entrusting…

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Review of Limbo (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Apr 2021

Deadpan has never crackled with such life as it does in this miraculous movie, a stunning synergy of story and style to which all films…

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Review of Limbo (2021)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Apr 2021

Deadpan has never crackled with such life as it does in this miraculous movie, a stunning synergy of story and style to which all films…

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Review of Limbo (2021)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Apr 2021

Deadpan has never crackled with such life as it does in this miraculous movie, a stunning synergy of story and style to which all films…

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Review of French Exit (2021)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 14 Oct 2020

The film does not waste the brilliance of its two leading performances. But it doesn’t expand much upon their skilled interpretations, either…

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Review of Joe Bell (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 20 Sep 2020

Green’s humanistic stamp is evident when Wahlberg expresses a soulful sentiment or denunciation of narrow-minded thinking, yet there’s…

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Review of Another Round (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Sep 2020

There are not “funny” moments or “dramatic” moments for their characters; there are simply “human” moments…

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Review of Penguin Bloom (2021)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Sep 2020

Watts certainly makes that internal struggle compelling without resorting to overwrought physical transformation…

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Review of Monday (2021)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Sep 2020

Not unlike the on-screen pair, Mickey (Sebastian Stan) and Chloe (Denise Gough), Papadimitropoulos excels in exploring the couple’s…

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Review of I Care a Lot (2021)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Sep 2020

It’s not that anyone else in the movie isn’t good…

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Review of Monday (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Sep 2020

Not unlike the on-screen pair, Mickey (Sebastian Stan) and Chloe (Denise Gough), Papadimitropoulos excels in exploring the couple’s…

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Review of Monday (2021)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Sep 2020

Not unlike the on-screen pair, Mickey (Sebastian Stan) and Chloe (Denise Gough), Papadimitropoulos excels in exploring the couple’s…

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Review of Spree (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Aug 2020

Koltyarenko serves a bitter pill for viewers of his film, many of whom will likely see themselves as part of the solution to the problem of…

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Review of The Old Guard (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Jul 2020

The disposability of the people who stand in the way of the mercenaries feels at odds with the film’s core ideas about the value of life…

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Review of Irresistible (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 Jun 2020

It’s easier to make pandering jokes about how liberals can’t break through to working-class white voters than actually put in the work…

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Review of Wasp Network (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 18 Jun 2020

Assayas becomes so subservient to the sheer volume of events and information he must bring to life that the film completely subsumes any…

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Review of On the Record (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 May 2020

While the focus of any work about sexual violence should be on the survivors rather than the reporters, the directors could have made their…

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Review of Capone (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 May 2020

Capone is little more than a collection of tangents and diversions that never coheres into any kind of compelling narrative…

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Review of The Other Lamb (2020)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 02 Apr 2020

As told through Szumowska’s highly symbolic aesthetic, The Other Lamb makes for a chilling glance at the strange pull that cults exert on…

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