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David Robb

Film Critic

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)

Publish Date: December 4, 2023
"Aardman’s belated sequel lays an egg (...) The film mostly fails to make a convincing case for Aardman’s old-school artisanal approach (...) Rating: ** (out of 4)"

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The Bikeriders (2023)

Publish Date: October 25, 2023
"The film’s aura of sincere, uncomplicated Americana can be intoxicating and hard to resist (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of 4)"

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Nyad (2023)

Publish Date: October 18, 2023
"A By-the-Numbers Biopic Buoyed by Two Stirring Lead Performances (...) Rating: ** (out of 5)"

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The Killer (2023)

Publish Date: October 12, 2023
"David Fincher’s surprisingly funny assassin thriller hits its mark (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

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Priscilla (2023)

Publish Date: October 4, 2023
"Sofia Coppola’s Unexpectedly Tasteful Rendering of American Myth"

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The Human Surge 3 (2023)

Publish Date: September 27, 2023
"The film has an amorphous inconsistency that seems to be as much a feature as it is a bug (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

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Lousy Carter (2023)

Publish Date: August 15, 2023
"For a film so deliberately artificial, plainly lacking in originality, and notably at odds with prevailing social-cultural trends, Lousy Carter remains consistently engaging"

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Critical Zone (2023)

Publish Date: August 15, 2023
"Shot on the fly in and around Tehran, often with carefully concealed cameras, 'Critical Zone' succeeds in using these limitations to its advantage, never feeling anything other than deliberate and controlled"

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Patagonia (2023)

Publish Date: August 15, 2023
"Dutifully moves from one cliché to the next, and gestures weakly at authenticity through a combination of shaky camera work"

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Where Would You Like to Go? (2023)

Publish Date: May 21, 2023
"Its sensitive exploration of loss and memory might not dig up enough nuggets of wisdom to justify its glacial pace, but its low-key idiosyncrasies do convey the inherent strangeness of bereavement effectively"

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Money Exchange (2022)

Publish Date: May 21, 2023
"[It] is populated with believable supporting characters, and its street scenes often exude a cinema-vérité rawness that goes a long way toward compensating for the rote script"

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The Pod Generation (2023)

Publish Date: May 21, 2023
"The film offers a timely critique of corporate interference in the most fundamental elements of human nature, but it’s apparently unwilling to explore any of its ideas in depth"

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The Pod Generation (2023)

Publish Date: May 21, 2023
"The film offers a timely critique of corporate interference in the most fundamental elements of human nature, but it’s apparently unwilling to explore any of its ideas in depth"

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There is a Stone (2022)

Publish Date: May 4, 2023
"[It] taps into a surprising depth of feeling with the most barebones of stories, relying largely on sensitive, nuanced performances (...) its patient approach succeeds in paying proper homage to the kind of chance encounter that an isolating modern world rarely allows to emerge."

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)

Publish Date: April 9, 2023
"Murakami adaptation is an unsatisfying clash of styles (...) Pierre Foldes’s film ultimately fails to create any clear identity of its own (...) Rating: ** (out of 4)"

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Arnold is a Model Student (2022)

Publish Date: March 19, 2023
"Even at its most confrontational, the film maintains a carefully controlled deadpan tone (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

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On the Adamant (2023)

Publish Date: March 1, 2023
"A tender, if half-sketched, survey of a mental health haven (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of 4)"

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Rye Lane (2023)

Publish Date: January 29, 2023
"'Rye Lane’s' antic energy and caricatured portrait of England’s capital city fail to make its central romance truly resonate (...) Rating: ** (out of 4)"

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Ticket To Paradise (2022)

Publish Date: September 28, 2022
"George Clooney's and Julia Roberts's undimmed charisma brings enough grace notes to 'Ticket to Paradise' that you could easily be taken in by its low-stakes frivolity (...) Rating: ** (out of 4)"

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The Silent Twins (2022)

Publish Date: September 14, 2022
"Relatively flat characterizations elsewhere prevent the film from really coming to life, even if the two leads are mostly successful at depicting insular girls living in a world of their own creation (...) Rating: ** (out of 4)"

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