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Review of The Best Man Holiday (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Nov 2013

The sexism isn't quite as noxious as one might find in Tyler Perry's films, but that's as far as the compliments go when it comes to this overextended…

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Review of Free Birds (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Oct 2013

The film is absent of humor and thrills, and accented with designs and color schemes that are equally notable for their lack of risk…

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Review of Ender's Game (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Oct 2013

Gavin Hood relays a vague sense of what it's like to live in duty, and yet at a distance from one's home, but this vision of the future never…

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Review of Escape Plan (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Oct 2013

A dim anti-privatization parable that preaches a familiar strain of cynical, unchallenged self-righteousness in the face of widespread abuse…

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Review of Machete Kills (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Oct 2013

The films that Robert Rodriguez emulates here are known for similar unexpected narrative turns, but the crucial value that he misses is their…

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Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Sep 2013

As played by an eloquently beleaguered Oscar Isaac, Llewyn Davis is arguably the most vivid and complex character the Coens have dreamed up…

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Review of A Touch of Sin (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2013

As depicted by Jia Zhang-ke, the balance between the spoils and moral rot of murder are far preferable to the debasing rigors of tradition…

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Review of About Time (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2013

A surprisingly thoughtful romantic comedy that shirks a great deal of reason and consequence in the name of love…

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Review of About Time (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2013

A surprisingly thoughtful romantic comedy that shirks a great deal of reason and consequence in the name of love…

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Review of Metallica: Through the Never (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2013

The songs still sound great here, but the instruments aren't amplified nearly as much as the nostalgia and vanity of the men who wield them…

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Review of Rush (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Sep 2013

Ron Howard's by-the-seat-of-your-pants aesthetic makes the slower, darker sequences feel hurried and bland, especially when stacked up next…

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Review of Enough Said (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2013

Enough can't be said about how the late James Gandolfini comes so close to saving writer-director Nicole Holofcener's latest articulation of…

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Review of Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2013

A full realization of the very worst fears one could imagine when its director, James Wan, unexpectedly emerged from the torture-porn murk…

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Review of All Is Bright (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2013

All Is Bright remains engaging, for the most part, but most of the big narrative turns feel both predictable and forced, and at odds with the…

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Review of A Teacher (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Sep 2013

We're only allowed an insufficient glimpse of the anxiousness and curiosity that drive these creatures, a tactic which feels suspiciously like…

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Review of Enter the Dragon (1973)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Aug 2013

Director Robert Clouse works the material for efficiency and optimum thrill, while providing a buoyant visual style to the action…

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Review of Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Aug 2013

The film doubles down on the love-hate relationship with ultra-violence that typified its predecessor, but A History of Violence this is not…

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Review of The Butler (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Aug 2013

With the film, Lee Daniels quietly pushes his talent for hashing out visceral, violent emotions into unexpected dramatic terrain…

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Review of We're the Millers (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2013

Though the cast partially eschews the family-friendly timidity that the film defers to in the end, this would-be wild thing remains little…

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Review of Elysium (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Aug 2013

A cheekily gruesome and genuinely urgent entertainment, Blomkamp's latest nevertheless can't help but beg the question: Where's Snake Plissken…

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