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Review of We Are the Giant (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Dec 2014

It ironically reveals its intent to suture shut any remote ambivalence regarding its own gung-ho ethos, in effect engaging the same sort of…

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Review of Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Nov 2014

Anthony Powell's vision as a filmmaker is frustratingly limited to an information-style presentation that doubles as an enthusiastic advert…

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Review of The Way He Looks (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2014

What progressively mounts tension is the film's understanding of a boy's gradually realized homosexuality as being inextricable from the central…

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Review of Actress (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Nov 2014

It convincingly reconciles private passion with public desire by suggesting that, for women in particular, the 21st-century limelight is always…

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Review of Point and Shoot (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Oct 2014

In abandoning a more vigorous discussion of class and race-based senses of entitlement, Marshall Curry reveals his goals to be less critical…

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Review of E-Team (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Oct 2014

There's edifying information in the documentary, but it's tainted by forced dramatic tactics…

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Review of Young Ones (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Oct 2014

It avoids the typical trappings of the genre pastiche by utilizing its clear indebtedness to numerous other films as merely a starting point,…

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Review of Automata (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Oct 2014

Much like a spate of recent summer blockbusters, there's a tiring sense that every single facet of the narrative has to be rendered with truculent…

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Review of The Overnighters (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2014

If it ultimately can't reconcile all that's presented in its too-brief runtime, that's largely because its situation, much like the dissonance…

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Review of The Decent One (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2014

The Decent One operates under a discursive premise so presumptuous and flimsy that its attempted function as an experiential documentary proffers…

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Review of Inner Demons (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2014

There's a disingenuous offering of pathos to accompany the film's ridiculous and violent denouement…

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Review of The Two Faces of January (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2014

Superbly acted and sporadically intriguing thriller, yet it has a difficult time locating more stringent meaning and significance beyond its…

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Review of Space Station 76 (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2014

As a space-opera lampoon, it's incoherent primarily because it's never clear what the filmmakers are attempting to spoof…

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Review of The Green Prince (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2014

The proceedings have such a rigidly determined structure, amplified by chapter titles, that the power and conviction in their recountings deteriorate…

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Review of Memphis (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2014

The film's music is the city itself as well as a subtle suggestion that Tim Sutton's own digital cinema is just as elusive and intangible as…

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Review of Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Aug 2014

Thomas Allen Harris's documentary consistently takes agency away from the art itself with a litany of talking heads…

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Review of To Be Takei (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Aug 2014

Jennifer M…

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Review of Rich Hill (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jul 2014

Rich Hill is poverty porn, examining lower-class spaces with pity as its operative mode and engendering little more than a means for viewers…

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Review of War Story (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Jul 2014

Mark Jackson's direction strips much of the agency from any character's grasp by insisting that their dilemmas can only be revealed with stone-faced…

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Review of Finding Fela (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Jul 2014

Alex Gibney uses archival and Broadway footage so seamlessly that telling the difference between reality and recreation becomes not only difficult,…

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