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Review of Far from Men (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Apr 2015

The film often suggests a less defiant cover of The Defiant Ones, yet it's a must-see for Viggo Mortensen's characteristically wonderful performance…

Review of Iris (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Apr 2015

Albert Maysles's portrait of Iris Apfel gradually emerges with cathartic clarity without compromising her inherent mystery…

Review of Iris (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Apr 2015

Albert Maysles's portrait of Iris Apfel gradually emerges with cathartic clarity without compromising her inherent mystery…

Review of Alex of Venice (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Apr 2015

Chris Messina is eventually a little too indifferent to the machinations of the plot, but the film, however inescapably sentimental, is a romantic…

Review of The Harvest (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Apr 2015

Director John McNaughton, once an agile orchestrator of seemingly incompatible tones, has retained his talent for teasing insinuation…

Review of The Sisterhood of Night (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Apr 2015

The film is so unusually moving and penetrating because it refuses to cloud its emotions in distancing irony, anger, or nihilism…

Review of The Harvest (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Apr 2015

Director John McNaughton, once an agile orchestrator of seemingly incompatible tones, has retained his talent for teasing insinuation…

Review of Last Knights (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Mar 2015

Another macho celebration of fighting for freedom because someone else told you to, devoid of any acknowledgement of the inherent irony of…

Review of Serena (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Mar 2015

The film can't reconcile Ron Rash's apocalyptic tenderness with its own eagerness to revel in romantic star allure…

Review of Sea Fog (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Mar 2015

The politics of the boat as it reaches calamity are mostly reduced to a singular urge to kill one character…

Review of Backcountry (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Mar 2015

After a surprising development, the film grows slack and sentimental, reverting to the survival-movie platitude about hardship making you a…

Review of Spring (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Mar 2015

It bridges the cautionary elements of a horror film with the wish-fulfilling platitudes of a touristy romance…

Review of Accidental Love (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Mar 2015

So flimsily constructed, visually and narratively, that it resembles a middle-school play that's been hastily filmed on an antique camcorder…

Review of Cymbeline (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Mar 2015

The source material, which is convoluted even by Shakespeare's narratively dexterous standards, is admittedly a tough nut for a filmmaker to crack…

Review of The Cobbler (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Mar 2015

Thomas McCarthy evinces no interest in the people who come into Max's store and wind up as fodder for his increasingly violent and self-absorbed…

Review of The Lesson (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Mar 2015

The film ultimately understands poverty as a profound and often irreversible desolation of terra firma…

Review of Everly (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Feb 2015

Yet another boring ode to heavy breathing that's offered under the hypocritical pretense of celebrating female empowerment…

Review of Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Feb 2015

Cannily approximates a channel-surfing quality with its propulsive alternation of clips and interviews…

Review of Wild Tales (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Feb 2015

Each of the six vignettes that make up this unusually energetic anthology pertains to the methods of calculated mass dehumanization that are…

Review of Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Feb 2015

A dizzying hall-of-mirrors stunt, a horror remake as autobiographical X-ray, and a work of fantasy that serves as a decadently cleansing creative…

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