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IR Film Review: A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY [30West/Sony]

There is something beautiful in "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey". It is an experiment but reminds one what films used to look like. The film is about hope and love and yet is peppered with the messy stuff that goes along with it. Kogonada, who directed Colin Farrell in the independent "After Wang" returns here with a similar concept film but adjusts it more to mainstream.

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IR Film Review: BORDERLINE [TMP]

Some capers or farces have a certain uniqueness or almost blind coolness to them. "Borderline" has a lot of right ingredients but sometimes goes a bit off reservation. Headlined by Ray Nicholson as an obsessive fan with style and Samara Weaving as the object of his focus, it could have been something really really dark. Produced by Margo Robbie and directed by Samara Weaving's husband Jimmy Warren, it is an interesting family affair with a comic tone.

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IR Film Review: ASTEROID CITY [Focus]

The context of "Asteroid City" reflects in its idea of reflexive personality. While its fuel comes from the itterance in many ways of director Wes Anderson's previous film "The French Dispatch", it does come off as a little more disjointed than the superior "The Grand Budapest Hotel". That said, all of Anderson's films are brilliant in many ways, even those that aren't exactly perfect.

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IR Film Review: AMSTERDAM [20th Century Studios]

Making an original film with a period backing with unusual if not eccentric characters can either work gloriously or become hit-or-miss scenario depending on the beats the story takes. "Amsterdam", a new faux comedy from writer/director David O. Russell, is particular in many ways that always populate his films. However it depends on certain edge points.

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IR Film Review: THE SUICIDE SQUAD [Warner Brothers]

The rules of a comic book movie rule in the eyes of the beholder. Writer/Director James Gunn got to go in a different grid making "The Suicide Squad" but it feels more like his indie movies at times than "Guardians Of The Galaxy".

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