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Farran Smith Nehme

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The Beguiled (2017) 79% EDIT “Coppola's screenplay meticulously softens or eliminates everything that was bold and frightening about Don Siegel's 1971 film version.” – Film Comment Magazine Jul 11, 2017 Full Review A Dog's Purpose (2017) 35% EDIT “By the end, I was worn out by all the selfless devotion, all the joyous running across meadows and wheat fields while the camera soars as high as a dog's love for his human.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 30, 2017 Full Review César (1936) 100% EDIT “Pagnol gives the illusion of naturalism through the vivid energy and affection of his characters.” – Village Voice Jan 3, 2017 Full Review Fanny (1932) 100% EDIT “Pagnol gives the illusion of naturalism through the vivid energy and affection of his characters.” – Village Voice Jan 3, 2017 Full Review Marius (1931) 100% EDIT “Pagnol gives the illusion of naturalism through the vivid energy and affection of his characters.” – Village Voice Jan 3, 2017 Full Review Denial (2016) 82% 1/4 EDIT “The movie sneers at the journalists covering the trial, but for those of us who followed it at the time, the newspaper accounts were a lot more engrossing than this film.” – New York Post Sep 29, 2016 Full Review I.T. (2016) 9% 2/4 EDIT “Beat by beat, it's exactly what you'd expect, right down to the camera's prurient interest in the dewy flesh of Stefanie Scott as the 17-year-old daughter.” – New York Post Sep 22, 2016 Full Review Command and Control (2016) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Archival footage is combined with somewhat affected-looking re-enactments, but the film achieves its purpose: to remind us that we still have thousands of bombs, and neither they - nor we - have gotten that much smarter.” – New York Post Sep 15, 2016 Full Review London Road (2015) 76% 3/4 EDIT “Mesmerizing.” – New York Post Sep 8, 2016 Full Review The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016) 71% 2/4 EDIT “The film can be rough going for those who know little of Berger's work.” – New York Post Sep 1, 2016 Full Review When Two Worlds Collide (2016) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “The importance of the issues is what carries the film along.” – New York Post Aug 18, 2016 Full Review A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015) 72% 1.5/4 EDIT “The sort of mistily pretty literary adaptation where everyone speaks in complete sentences pregnant with imagery and meaning, and where historic events serve largely to try the souls of the characters, who in turn try the audience ...” – New York Post Aug 18, 2016 Full Review Anthropoid (2016) 67% 2.5/4 EDIT “This is a story of heroes, and the second half in particular shows why.” – New York Post Aug 11, 2016 Full Review Neither Heaven Nor Earth (2015) 92% 3/4 EDIT “[A] strange and engrossing spin on the war movie genre ...” – New York Post Aug 4, 2016 Full Review Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil (2016) 62% 2.5/4 EDIT “Like other recent art-world documentaries, much time is spent on inter-museum wrangling, and the personalities aren't vivid enough ... to build tension. The interest lies in the close look at the strange vision of this great artist.” – New York Post Jul 28, 2016 Full Review The Childhood of a Leader (2015) 90% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's an ambitious, often arresting film, but it lacks cohesion, and the seesawing plot and motivations seem more indecisive than mysterious. Still, it's a promising debut ...” – New York Post Jul 21, 2016 Full Review Don't Blink -- Robert Frank (2015) 84% 1.5/4 EDIT “As the title seems to advertise, it's a frustrating blur of a movie; the rock 'n' roll soundtrack, however, is terrific.” – New York Post Jul 14, 2016 Full Review The Innocents (2016) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “The actors bring emotional authenticity to the aftermath of trauma, but despite that and the handsome cinematography, there is also a persistent phoniness.” – New York Post Jun 30, 2016 Full Review Nuts! (2016) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “This is one of the most entertaining documentaries to come along in some time.” – New York Post Jun 23, 2016 Full Review Cosmos (2015) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's a surreal piece of mischief, equal parts breezy fun and maddening confusion.” – New York Post Jun 16, 2016 Full Review From Afar (2015) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “Carefully composed, shot in the usual gray and mustard digital palette, the film deals in small slivers of information.” – New York Post Jun 9, 2016 Full Review The Witness (2015) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “Solomon's documentary goes deep into what we know about the killing, and what - thanks to flawed original reporting in the New York Times - we only think we know.” – New York Post Jun 2, 2016 Full Review Unlocking the Cage (2016) 80% 2/4 EDIT “The film is impeccably shot and paced, but the radical real-world implications of Wise's agenda are never fully explored.” – New York Post May 26, 2016 Full Review Kaili Blues (2015) 97% 3/4 EDIT “"Kaili Blues" has the kitchen-sink feel of a new director eager to try every art-film technique in the book, but the film's beauty and inventiveness are riveting.” – New York Post May 19, 2016 Full Review A Monster With a Thousand Heads (2015) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “It is engrossing, even funny at times, but it is a bit too jagged in execution to properly build to its tragic climax.” – New York Post May 12, 2016 Full Review
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