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Review of The Captain (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jul 2018

In one fashion, Robert Schwentke proves to be too complicit with his protagonist, regarding evil and human banality as stimulation…

Review of Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Jul 2018

The film poignantly reveals that the secret history of Hollywood is really an alternate history of America…

Review of Wanda (1990)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jul 2018

Writer-director-actor Barbara Loden's 1970 feature has a wonderful, hard-won sense of everyday rapture…

Review of Wanda (1970)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jul 2018

Writer-director-actor Barbara Loden's 1970 feature has a wonderful, hard-won sense of everyday rapture…

Review of Milford Graves Full Mantis (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Jul 2018

Jake Meginsky's documentary is insular, precious, and too pleased with its unwillingness to reach out to the unconverted…

Review of The Night Eats the World (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Jul 2018

Dominique Rocher reinvigorates the zombie film only to succumb to the strictures of the coming-of-age romance…

Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Jul 2018

In Leave No Trace, director Debra Granik continues to refine a style of tranquil intensity…

Review of Madeline's Madeline (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jun 2018

True to the implications of its title, the devotional insularity of Madeline's Madeline is suffocating, which is appropriate for a film about…

Review of Three Identical Strangers (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Jun 2018

Director Tim Wardle tells an extraordinary and troubling story without diving below the surface excitement of its twists…

Review of Swing Time (1936)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jun 2018

Swing Time has some of Astaire and Rogers’s mightiest set pieces, which are intertwined to reflect their characters’ evolving relationship…

Review of Woman Walks Ahead (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jun 2018

As a character, Catherine Weldon suffers the same fate as Sitting Bull, having been reduced to a signifier of the filmmakers' retroactive political…

Review of Custody (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Jun 2018

Custody is concerned with the failure of process to discern human need and perversion, and Xavier Legrand rather ironically follows in the…

Review of Invaders from Mars (1986)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Jun 2018

Committed horror nerds and conspiracy-minded liberals alike will find fleeting suggestions of the canny parable that nearly manages to surface…

Review of Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Jun 2018

Christian Papierniak manages to get a tricky tonal balance more or less right, capturing the false sense of superiority that Izzy projects…

Review of The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Jun 2018

As the film proceeds, the appeal of its nostalgia wears thin and you may notice that there isn't much beyond the window dressing…

Review of Nancy (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Jun 2018

There's vanity in its boutique art-film brand of hopelessness, which derives from a fetishizing of keeping it real…

Review of 211 (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Jun 2018

The film relegates Nicolas Cage to a supporting player and crowds him with considerably less charismatic performers…

Review of Fahrenheit 451 (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 May 2018

Season 1 Review: Bahrani renders reading passive without any sense of irony, reducing books to a bland MacGuffin…

Review of On Chesil Beach (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 May 2018

The film’s imaginative daring springs from its willingness to render repression sexy, even if it will prove to be the seed of a young couple’s…

Review of Filmworker (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 May 2018

Tony Zierra interviews Leon Vitali at length, and he’s a commanding camera object with an obvious wellspring of longing and pain…

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