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    Film
    As a Film, Barack and Michelle’s First Date Suffers From Its Foretold Fate
    As a Film, Barack and Michelle’s First Date...
    By Robert Horton • August 24, 2016 1:30 am

    ‘Southside With You’ is an interesting, but not necessarily compelling, take on the biopic form.

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    Herzog Logs On in ‘Lo and Behold,’ a Philosophical Treatise on the Internet Age
    Herzog Logs On in ‘Lo and Behold,’ a...
    By Robert Horton • August 17, 2016 1:30 am

    One of his many stops in the film is an Internet-addiction rehab center here in Washington.

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    Refreshingly, ‘Our Little Sister’ Does Drama Without Villains
    Refreshingly, ‘Our Little Sister’ Does Drama Without Villains
    By Robert Horton • August 10, 2016 1:30 am

    In this film, everybody’s basically all right.

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    ‘Don’t Think Twice’ Examines the Tensions and Trials of Making It in Improv
    ‘Don’t Think Twice’ Examines the Tensions and Trials...
    By Robert Horton • August 3, 2016 1:30 am

    Honest but not maudlin, this movie has a few hard feelings and one thrown punch.

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    Bad Moms Is Bad
    Bad Moms Is Bad
    By Robert Horton • July 28, 2016 1:30 am

    This year has seen a slew of great femme-driven comedies, but this isn’t one.

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    In ‘Café Society,’ Woody Allen Can’t Find a Pulse
    In ‘Café Society,’ Woody Allen Can’t Find a...
    By Robert Horton • July 20, 2016 1:30 am

    With his pretty new film, the director delivers some sharp jokes, but never gets into a groove.

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    Courtesy of Electric City Entertainment
    Viggo Mortensen Gets Comfortable in ‘Captain Fantastic’
    By Robert Horton • July 13, 2016 1:30 am

    But the Matt Ross film still manages to chafe some.

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    Finding the Good in Bad Movies
    Finding the Good in Bad Movies
    By Jeffrey Rindskopf • July 13, 2016 1:30 am

    It’s about the crowd, not the quality, at Seattle’s bad-movie screenings.

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    Visually and Sonically, ‘The Fits’ Is a Wonderfully Weird Debut
    Visually and Sonically, ‘The Fits’ Is a Wonderfully...
    By Robert Horton • July 6, 2016 1:30 am

    After a misfit 11-year-old joins a dance team, her peers succumb to mysterious seizures.

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    The BFG’s CGI Is a Test Case for Digital Moviemaking Exhaustion
    The BFG’s CGI Is a Test Case for...
    By Robert Horton • June 29, 2016 1:30 am

    There’s a warm heart under the digital exterior, one that makes us long for rubber sharks.

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    ‘De Palma’ Is an Uncritical but Robust Look at a Filmmaking Great
    ‘De Palma’ Is an Uncritical but Robust Look...
    By Robert Horton • June 22, 2016 1:30 am

    The film underscores De Palma’s keen, sometimes lurid grasp of what cinema is.

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    The Other Side Is a Harrowing Journey Through the Ravages of Rural Louisiana
    The Other Side Is a Harrowing Journey Through...
    By Robert Horton • June 15, 2016 1:30 am

    “I acknowledge this film’s power, and still feel uneasy about it.”

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    Selections for the Fourth Week of the Seattle International Film Festival
    Selections for the Fourth Week of the Seattle...
    By Robert Horton • June 8, 2016 1:30 am

    Young Obama in love, Viggo Mortensen’s post-hippie fantasy, and more.

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    The Screwy Screwball of Maggie’s Plan
    The Screwy Screwball of Maggie’s Plan
    By Robert Horton • June 8, 2016 1:30 am

    The comedy in Maggie’s Plan is on-again, off-again.

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    Courtesy Sundance Selects
    ‘Weiner’ Reveals a Politician Unable to Turn His...
    By Robert Horton • June 1, 2016 1:30 am

    Filmmakers Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg capture the cringeworthy mayoral run of shamed former congressman Anthony Weiner.

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    Selections for the Third Week of the Seattle International Film Festival
    Selections for the Third Week of the Seattle...
    By Robert Horton • June 1, 2016 1:30 am

    Megan Griffiths’ newest, South American noir, Latvian absurdism, and more.

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    ‘The Lobster’ Is the Perfect Picture of Peculiarity
    ‘The Lobster’ Is the Perfect Picture of Peculiarity
    By Robert Horton • May 25, 2016 1:30 am

    Colin Farrell comes out of his shell in Yorgos Lanthimos’s dark, odd English-language debut.

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    Selections for the Second Week of the Seattle International Film Festival
    Selections for the Second Week of the Seattle...
    By Robert Horton • May 25, 2016 1:30 am

    Our critic selects the best of the fest.

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    Illustration by James the Stanton
    Stash Box: Marijuana at the Movies
    By Meagan Angus • May 18, 2016 1:30 am

    Three classic films that are better when you’re high.

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    Michele Gondry's 'Microbe & Gasoline.'
    Selections for the First Week of the Seattle...
    By Robert Horton • May 18, 2016 1:30 am

    Our critic selects the best of the fest.

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