Sleeper Awakened

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

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SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (2018)

July 28, 2018 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 6, COMEDY, SCIENCE FICTION, S

“So devilishly witty and throat tearing satire, but the edges are rough and the construction uneven. “

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July 28, 2018 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Boots Riley, Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Terry Crews, Omari Hardwick, Michael X. Sommers, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun, Armie Hammer, Robert Longstreet, David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Forest Whitaker, Rosario Dawson
2018, 6, COMEDY, SCIENCE FICTION, S
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017)

February 03, 2018 by Jacob Nelson in 2017, 8, C, DRAMA, FOREIGN, ROMANCE, Oscars 2018
"Idyllic and intoxicating, providing a scintillating playground of beauty, passion, tenderness, and loss that we may never want to leave."
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Luca Guadagnino, Timothée Chalemet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel
2017, 8, C, DRAMA, FOREIGN, ROMANCE, Oscars 2018
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FREE FIRE (2016)

September 11, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 7, 6, ACTION, COMEDY, CRIME, F
"Ridiculous but a smashing pastiche of the gritty 70's action/crime flicks"
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Ben Wheatley, Sharlto Copley, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor
2016, 7, 6, ACTION, COMEDY, CRIME, F
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NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (2016)

February 18, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 7, DRAMA, N, THRILLER, Oscars 2017
"This is a sleek and taught semi-thriller, filled with delectable vision and a caustically gloomy sheathe."
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Tom Ford, Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Shannon, Laura Linney, Michael Sheen, Armie Hammer, Andrea Riseborough
2016, 7, DRAMA, N, THRILLER, Oscars 2017
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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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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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THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

May 17, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2015, 6, ACTION, COMEDY, M, SPY
"Much better than I expected and a worthy little action spy comedy romp"
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Guy Ritchie, Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Hugh Grant, Jared Harris, Elizabeth Debicki
2015, 6, ACTION, COMEDY, M, SPY
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