★★★
Alexander Payne promises big but falls ironically short with Downsizing, a sci-fi comedy-drama with more to say than is quite within its capacity.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri | Review
★★★★★
Expect the unexpected as Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh takes his pitch black brand of dramedy to the west side of the Atlantic. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri is funny and affirming, traumatic, shocking and unfailingly absorbing. At its heart is a phenomenal turn by Francis McDormand.
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Molly’s Game | Review
★★★★
Launching in the vocabulary of Adam McKay’s The Big Short – before landing somewhere a touch more ordinary – Molly’s Game may not entirely be the visually coherent triumph that Sorkin surely has in him but remains an unfailingly absorbing directorial debut from The Social Network writer. His tremendous cast, led by Jessica Chastain, is a bonus.
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