Jake Mulligan
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9to5: The Story of A Movement (2020)
100%
3/5
“There are passages where the film plays like a PowerPoint, but only because it's truly committed to function over form.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 23, 2021
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Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
81%
3.5/5
“Perceptive at dramatizing moments where teenagers' performances of masculinity and maturity inadvertently melt into something more fraught and real.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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The American Sector (2020)
100%
3/5
“Often locates overwhelming extremes of eccentric Americana... as though it were chasing after the modern cinematic equivalent of certain Grant Wood paintings.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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No Sudden Move (2021)
92%
3/5
“There's not a scene or even a line of dialogue that isn't tied into 'the ideas,' which is a quality with both positive and negative attributes.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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All Light, Everywhere (2021)
94%
4/5
“Complicated and nuanced to a degree that actually befits the political debates and social dynamics that it depicts-a profound accomplishment for any American film.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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On the Rocks (2020)
87%
3.5/5
“Piles up a respectable amount of dramatic weight given that it's a lightly comic narrative about a family of very well off New Yorkers living mostly charmed lives circa 2019.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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City Hall (2020)
98%
4/5
“Even just taken as a portrait of Boston in the midst of what'll now forever be known as 'the moment before the pandemic,' it's a work of massive regional significance.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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The Truffle Hunters (2020)
97%
2.5/5
“The human truffle hunters [collaborate] with the filmmakers to present their craft, trade, and lives from such a coy angle that it leaves one with little to engage.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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Hopper/Welles (2020)
88%
2/5
“To present this lightly edited archival object as though it were intentionally produced film art is straight up fraudulent.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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Night of the Kings (2020)
96%
2.5/5
“Fails its own test. Excessive duration is the whole thing, yet Night of the Kings is barely sketched out, much less spilling over.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
82%
3/5
“Really about writing fiction more than [it's] about the characters themselves or anything else.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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The Calming (2020)
90%
3/5
“It's very human and very unspectacular-and when those qualities intersect, the film seems truer than most.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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The King of Staten Island (2020)
76%
2/5
“Probably the least rambunctious film that could've been made on the subject.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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The Killing Floor (1984)
91%
4/5
“An intrinsically American historical epic.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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Fatal Affair (2020)
19%
1/5
“Fatal Affair has not one cinematic pleasure to offer.” –
Dig Boston
Aug 6, 2021
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The Living (2014)
43%
1.5/4
“The Living is one of those unfortunate films ignorant of any world outside its author's head.” –
Movie Mezzanine
Apr 16, 2015
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The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
94%
3.5/4
“This is another psychological portrait, but of a shared psychology, one facing great strife. Bondage coming undone.” –
Movie Mezzanine
Jan 28, 2015
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Son of a Gun (2014)
63%
1.5/4
“Another crime film that's learned all it knows about criminal life from better crime films.” –
Movie Mezzanine
Jan 23, 2015
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The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)
92%
A-
“A work this vast...should not remain a footnote in the Ghibli canon.” –
Movie Mezzanine
Dec 30, 2014
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Dying of the Light (2014)
13%
C+
“Schrader's direction, alternatively, often gives in to the standard-issue cop-movie nature of his screenplay.” –
Movie Mezzanine
Dec 11, 2014
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Dear White People (2014)
91%
B+
“This isn't a romantic comedy, it's an all-too-realistic satire depicting an entire college ecosystem strung out and put on display from the top-down; more School Daze than Bringing Up Baby.” –
Movie Mezzanine
Oct 17, 2014
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Calvary (2014)
89%
B+
“Calvary is a strange film, often hilarious but always heavy and forlorn.” –
Movie Mezzanine
Aug 7, 2014
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Land Ho! (2014)
82%
B+
“I thought the little idiosyncrasies...were worth the trip through the same-old-same-old narrative beats that served as their skeleton.” –
Movie Mezzanine
Jul 12, 2014
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Coherence (2013)
89%
B
“Coherence is the most convoluted shaggy dog story you'll have heard in quite some time - a shaggy Schrodinger's cat.” –
Movie Mezzanine
Jul 3, 2014
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Jersey Boys (2014)
51%
C
“Here's a jukebox with no records in it.” –
Movie Mezzanine
Jun 19, 2014
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