Sleeper Awakened

WITHOUT FILM, SOMETHING SLEEPS INSIDE US AND SELDOM AWAKENS. THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.

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JACKIE (2016)

February 14, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA, J, Oscars 2017
"Smartly put together with style and panache, but with a languid stuffiness and slothful pace, the total felt dutifully disagreeable."
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Pablo Larrain, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E. Grant
2016, 5, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA, J, Oscars 2017
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ALLIED (2016)

February 02, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, A, DRAMA, ROMANCE, Oscars 2017
"A sense of romance, dread, and intrigue are stunted and unsatisfactory for being the core of the entire film."
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February 02, 2017 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Robert Zemeckis, Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, August Diehl, Lizzy Caplan, Simon McBurney, Matthew Goode
2016, 5, A, DRAMA, ROMANCE, Oscars 2017
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BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN (2016)

February 01, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, B, BIOGRAPHY, CRIME, DOCUMENTARY
"...but while it brought to light a creepy story and had a pleasing look/production values, it could only reach a middle level"
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February 01, 2017 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Irene Taylor Brodsky
2016, 5, B, BIOGRAPHY, CRIME, DOCUMENTARY
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HOSTAGE TO THE DEVIL (2016)

January 17, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, BIOGRAPHY, DOCUMENTARY, H
"I also felt that most of us were probably viewing it to see more about/of exorcisms – that was sorely lacking."
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January 17, 2017 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Marty Stalker
2016, 5, BIOGRAPHY, DOCUMENTARY, H
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TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016)

December 27, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, ACTION, SCIENCE FICTION, T, HORROR, ZOMBIE
"Quick twitch zombie savagery trapped in the confines (or coffins) of speeding rail cars!"
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December 27, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Sang-ho Yeon, Yoo Gong, Su-an Kim, Yu-mi Jung, Dong-seok Ma
2016, 5, ACTION, SCIENCE FICTION, T, HORROR, ZOMBIE
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ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

December 20, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, ACTION, R, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
The love has gone, only to be replaced by “meh… it’s fine”
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Gareth Edwards, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, Wen Jiang, Jimmy Smits, Riz Ahmed
2016, 5, ACTION, R, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
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JOURNEY TO THE WEST (2013)

December 20, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2013, 5, ACTION, COMEDY, FANTASY, FOREIGN, J
"fun but meandering"
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Stephen Chow, Chi-kin Kwok, Zhang Wen, Qi Shu, Bo Huang, Show Lo, Xing Yu
2013, 5, ACTION, COMEDY, FANTASY, FOREIGN, J
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SULLY (2016)

December 02, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, DRAMA, S, BIOGRAPHY, Oscars 2017
"it felt algorithmic when it should have felt human"
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December 02, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn
2016, 5, DRAMA, S, BIOGRAPHY, Oscars 2017
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COHERENCE (2013)

November 16, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2013, 5, C, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION, THRILLER
"The relationships, ins & outs, and skittering around the weaving dimensional schema are provocative."
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November 16, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
James Ward Byrkit, Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon
2013, 5, C, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION, THRILLER
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FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (2016)

October 23, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, BIOGRAPHY, COMEDY, DRAMA, F, Oscars 2017
"I feel it simply wasn't for me..."
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October 23, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Stephen Frears, Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson
2016, 5, BIOGRAPHY, COMEDY, DRAMA, F, Oscars 2017
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BASKIN (2015)

October 10, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2015, 5, B, FANTASY, HORROR
If a group of cops dreamily wandered into and quixotically tried to escape a Lovecraftian "Hills Have Eyes" meets "Event Horizon"
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October 10, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Can Evrenol, Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Gorkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu
2015, 5, B, FANTASY, HORROR
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BIRTH OF A NATION (2016)

October 09, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, B, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA
" It tries to be the best of 12 Years A Slave and Django Unchained simultaneously, but it sulks as a pale ghost of either"
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October 09, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Junior, Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry
2016, 5, B, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA
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STAR TREK: BEYOND (2016)

October 07, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, ACTION, S, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
"Felt a lot like an episode of one of the series, both to its benefit and its detriment."
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October 07, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Justin Lin, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba, Sofia Boutella
2016, 5, ACTION, S, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2017
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SWISS ARMY MAN (2016)

October 04, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, COMEDY, DRAMA, S
"I wanted to like it, but felt my enjoyment was squelched, by their excesses and scarcities"
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October 04, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Shane Carruth
2016, 5, COMEDY, DRAMA, S
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AMANDA KNOX (2016)

October 04, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, A, CRIME, DOCUMENTARY
"touching on a good story but not quite delivering a good film"
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October 04, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Rod Blackhurst, Brian McGinn
2016, 5, A, CRIME, DOCUMENTARY
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IMPERIUM (2016)

September 21, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, CRIME, DRAMA, I
"Imperium delivers a solid but unspectacular white supremacist/terrorist thriller"
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September 21, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Daniel Ragussis, Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Burn Gorman, Sam Trammell, Nestor Carbonell
2016, 5, CRIME, DRAMA, I
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NEON DEMON (2016)

September 06, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, DRAMA, N, THRILLER
"Equal parts brilliant & gorgeous and bland/ & sophomoric"
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September 06, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Nicolas Winding Refn, Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Jena Malone, Abby Lee
2016, 5, DRAMA, N, THRILLER
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JASON BOURNE (2016)

September 04, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, ACTION, J, SPY, THRILLER
"Can't we and the CIA just let Bourne live out the rest of his days off the grid?"
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September 04, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Paul Greengrass, Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed
2016, 5, ACTION, J, SPY, THRILLER
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TRIPLE 9 (2016)

May 03, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 5, ACTION, CRIME, DRAMA, T
"What could have been killer ended up as only a maimer"
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May 03, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
John Hillcoat, Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aaron Paul, Kate Winslet, Gal Gadot, Norman Reedus, Michael Kenneth Williams
2016, 5, ACTION, CRIME, DRAMA, T
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CREATIVE CONTROL (2015)

April 19, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2015, 5, C, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION
"scratches that contemplative itch but doesn't satisfy the dramatic hunger"
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April 19, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Benjamin Dickinson, Nora Zehetner, Reggie Watts
2015, 5, C, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION
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