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Review

The Pale Blue Eye

by Anton Bitel

A hard­ened detec­tive teams up with a young Edgar Allen Poe to solve a mur­der in Scott Coop­er’s chilly thriller.

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Review

Antlers

by Anton Bitel

A horned enti­ty stalks Keri Russell’s school teacher in direc­tor Scott Cooper’s alle­gor­i­cal Amer­i­can hor­ror story.

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Review

Hostiles

by David Jenkins

Chris­t­ian Bale gives it his actor­ly all as a jad­ed cav­al­ry gun­slinger in Scott Cooper’s dour, old-timey western.

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Review

Black Mass

by Vadim Rizov

Despite John­ny Depp’s best efforts, this by the num­bers gang­ster biopic doesn’t do its sto­ry justice.

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Review

Out of the Furnace

by Matt Thrift

A mag­net­ic Chris­t­ian Bale adds much-need­ed grav­i­tas to this oth­er­wise con­ven­tion­al blue-col­lar revenge saga.

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2
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Review

Crazy Heart

by Lorien Haynes

Writer/​director Scott Coop­er clear­ly has poten­tial, but he has trust­ed too much in his star alone.

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