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Brian Miller

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Million Dollar Baby (2004) 90% EDIT “A one-man shop who even composed the muted score for his movie, Eastwood reminds us how films are best created, like Maggie's destiny in the ring, with one's own hands.” – Seattle Weekly Feb 19, 2019 Full Review Head-On (2004) 91% EDIT “The storytelling rhythms can be a little jarring, almost like early Spike Lee, but this seems true to the disconnect of Cahit's and Sibel's lives.” – Seattle Weekly Feb 19, 2019 Full Review Twin Sisters (2002) 69% EDIT “Stamp collectors, this is the movie for you. For the rest of us, Lotte and Anna are nice but not very interesting characters,” – Seattle Weekly Feb 19, 2019 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% EDIT “Gladiator certainly feels like it was written by committee and template.” – Seattle Weekly Feb 19, 2019 Full Review A Beautiful Mind (2001) 74% EDIT “As competent, affecting biopics go, Mind won't win any prizes, but you've earned yourself the right for more awards consideration, mate.” – Seattle Weekly Feb 19, 2019 Full Review Gone Girl (2014) 88% EDIT “Gone Girl is all about manipulation -- Fincher's stock in trade, really, which helps make the film such cynical, mean-spirited fun.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 9, 2016 Full Review Wild (2014) 88% EDIT “Wild is both tremendously appealing and inescapably sappy.” – Seattle Weekly Apr 26, 2016 Full Review Mustang (2015) 97% EDIT “In many regions of the globe, Ergven reminds us, this is how young women are still being treated as chattel.” – Seattle Weekly Dec 23, 2015 Full Review The Big Short (2015) 89% EDIT “Unusually and admirably for a professional funnyman, McKay ends his film not with a punchline, but with a punch to the gut.” – Seattle Weekly Dec 23, 2015 Full Review Joy (2015) 61% EDIT “I prefer the mess of Joy's first half, and that's where Russell and his fine cast -- including Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Diane Ladd, Édgar Ramírez, Isabella Rossellini, and Virginia Madsen -- do their best work.” – Seattle Weekly Dec 23, 2015 Full Review Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) 93% EDIT “A worthy successor.” – Seattle Weekly Dec 17, 2015 Full Review Youth (2015) 72% EDIT “The trite, disappointing Youth, like its two heroes, never steps outside the spa's nostalgic comforts. Even its final concert scene, presented as a triumph, feels like a retreat into familiar flattery and self-regard.” – Seattle Weekly Dec 17, 2015 Full Review In the Heart of the Sea (2015) 42% EDIT “Unusually for Howard, one of our finest old-school Hollywood craftsmen, Heart is a very meta account, constantly reassuring and validating itself.” – Seattle Weekly Dec 9, 2015 Full Review Chi-Raq (2015) 82% EDIT “Chi-Raq is rude and raunchy, consistently less amusing than it thinks it is, and thickly sliced with a very dull knife. Yet if not the breakthrough that Do the Right Thing was in '89 (though there are echoes), it's still fundamentally on-point.” – Seattle Weekly Dec 2, 2015 Full Review Legend (2015) 60% EDIT “Once you realize how routine Legend is, especially compared to 1990's The Krays, the main pleasure lies in watching Hardy. And, boy, is he watchable.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 25, 2015 Full Review Brooklyn (2015) 97% EDIT “In the end, of course, Ronan completely owns this movie.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 18, 2015 Full Review Trumbo (2015) 74% EDIT “Though there's much to admire in the dull, dutiful Trumbo, there's little to entertain.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 18, 2015 Full Review The Night Before (2015) 69% EDIT “It's not a good movie, but what do we really expect from a Seth Rogen vehicle at this time of year?” – Seattle Weekly Nov 18, 2015 Full Review Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 79% EDIT “Part III is much better than I and II. We should be grateful for that.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 16, 2015 Full Review Long Live Freedom (2013) 44% EDIT “Viva la Libert offers a tame political fantasia where more lacerating laughs are needed.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Inherent Vice (2014) 73% EDIT “Anderson's loosest, most purely enjoyable film to date.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Before I Disappear (2014) 34% EDIT “Christensen can't settle on a satisfactory tone-mawkish one moment, menacing the next... His movie is so vehement about Richie's redemption that even its bumpy detours are dully predictable.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 12, 2015 Full Review She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014) 90% EDIT “The film becomes a tedious procession of laudable figures recalling a noble cause; then it gets mired in the dull factionalism of race, sexual orientation, and class within the movement.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Mr. Turner (2014) 96% EDIT “Thanks to Spall's marvelous, gruntingly animalistic performance, Pope's eye, and Leigh's deep methodology, Mr. Turner gives us an immersion if not an understanding of the gnomic artist.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Match (2014) 76% EDIT “Match swiftly dwindles into the most middlebrow kind of theater. Accusations are hurled, apologies are tendered, grudges are nursed and dismissed, and everyone learns valuable lessons.” – Seattle Weekly Nov 12, 2015 Full Review
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