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Reviews

Review: American Sniper

By Chris Norris
January 28, 2015
(Clint Eastwood, U.S., 2014)

Film of the Week: The Duke of Burgundy

By Jonathan Romney
January 21, 2015
Peter Strickland reimagines Seventies Euro erotica in his latest meticulous pastiche

Deep Focus: The Humbling

By Michael Sragow
January 21, 2015
Always on: Al Pacino's bravura performance as an actor of a certain age fuels the offbeat humor in Barry Levinson's Philip Roth adaptation

Film of the Week: Gangs of Wasseypur

By Jonathan Romney
January 16, 2015
Of blood feuds and fossil fuels: Anurag Kashyap's Indian crime epic is a true powerhouse

Deep Focus: Blackhat

By Michael Sragow
January 15, 2015
Low resolution: Michael Mann's hacker action film fails to bring its globe-trotting characters to life

Deep Focus: Predestination

By Michael Sragow
January 8, 2015
Peter and Michael Spierig's adaptation of a Robert Heinlein short story matches spectacle with nimble emotionality

Film of the Week: When Evening Falls on Bucharest

By Jonathan Romney
January 7, 2015
...or Metabolism. Romanian new waver Corneliu Porumboiu returns with a navel-gazing reflection on film form and actress-auteur relations

Short Takes: Predestination

By Violet Lucca
January 5, 2015
(Michael & Peter Spierig, Australia, 2014)

Film of the Week: Leviathan

By Jonathan Romney
December 31, 2014
The lower depths: Andrey Zvyagintsev's intelligent, brilliantly acted film plunges into the intoxicating bleakness of the contemporary Russian soul

Short Takes: A Most Violent Year

By Eric Hynes
December 30, 2014
(J.C. Chandor, U.S., 2014)