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Michael Atkinson

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Review: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Lands Viewers in Cinema Purgatory

The auteur of the “Pusher” trilogy can no longer find his way through the dry-ice fog of his puerile obsessions.

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Review: ‘Rose of Nevada’ Time Travels Through the Desolation of Britain’s Working Class

Writer/director Mark Jenkin employs old-school techniques to capture the grit and brine of a magical voyage.

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Review: Kane Parsons’ ‘Backrooms’ Explores the Evil Architecture of Banality

The director goes places AI could never think of.

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Review: ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ is Not Really a Mummy Movie, But Blumhouse Couldn’t Care Less

You may not know who the name-checked auteur is, but everything else in this ersatz sarcophagus saga is as familiar as horror-flick puke.

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SEVEN DECADES

When the Pentagon Screened ‘The Battle of Algiers’

In 2003, the U.S. was mired in the Iraq War and the Voice revisited a film that has long been a cautionary tale for empires everywhere.

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‘Two Prosecutors’ Finds Flesh Crushed and Lives Smothered Under Stalin’s Terminal Bureaucracy

Ukrainian writer/director Sergei Loznitsa’s life's work is calling out fascists, past and present.

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‘Redux Redux’ Finds Fresh Genre Pleasures Along Timeworn Sci-Fi Paths

The McManus brothers’ latest revels in B-movie pulp while aiming higher.

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Review: ‘Meeting with Pol Pot’ Veils Genocidal Carnage Behind Political Obfuscation

Rithy Panh’s latest dissection of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime follows reporters seeking an audience with its brutal leader.

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Mission: Improbable, Interminable, Undecipherable

The “final” “Mission: Impossible” installment tramples its own tentpole into the ground.

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Review: ‘The Damned’ Keeps the Boredom Between Battles Ultrareal

Roberto Minervini’s no-budget Civil War saga is a beautiful, plotless meditation on the grit, light, violence, and landscapes of American ennui.

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