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Review of Corpo Celeste (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2011

Alice Rohrwacher's debut feature exhibits the sort of mannerisms a certain stripe of cinephile tends to dread, on or off the festival circuit…

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Review of Straw Dogs (1971)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2011

Despite Lurie's part-time efforts to lend the film some sense of place, the impulse to hot-ify everything from Peckinpah's considerably more…

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Review of Straw Dogs (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2011

Despite Lurie's part-time efforts to lend the film some sense of place, the impulse to hot-ify everything from Peckinpah's considerably more…

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Review of Drive (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2011

A lot of critics will talk about how the movie is a stripped-down, pure genre piece, and there's a lot of truth to that…

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Review of Conan the Barbarian (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Aug 2011

The re-whatevered Conan the Barbarian feels unexpectedly low-rent, even with its multi-million-dollar backdrops and ear-splitting, rumbling…

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Review of 5 Days of War (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Aug 2011

Renny Harlin seems now incapable of taking a movie even as far as a few frames…

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Review of Attack the Block (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Jul 2011

More Bloody Kids than Super 8, more Assault on Precinct 13 than Jumanji, and, in the end, more Be Kind Rewind than Adventures in Babysitting…

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Review of Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Jul 2011

Four Adventures uses a country-mouse-and-city-mouse template to explore the morality, aesthetic sense, urban and rural savvy, and a host of…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2011

The fact that Yates marshals a mile-long grocery list of business with the grace and poise of an orchestra conductor, and makes it look easy,…

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Review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Jun 2011

While I still protest Bay's too-hasty cutting (many shots are good enough to warrant a few extra seconds), his set pieces, and his sets, are…

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Review of David Holzman's Diary (1967)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jun 2011

What makes it so effective as a puzzle film is the way it provokes us to piece together, mentally, the life that David must have had before…

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Review of X-Men: First Class (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Jun 2011

Despite his apparent comfort with F/X-heavy projects, the obligations of duty to the brand are too much for Matthew Vaughn's strange, singular…

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Review of Went the Day Well? (1942)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 May 2011

A sickeningly giddy action thriller that looks forward to Straw Dogs, Inglorious Basterds, and Red Dawn…

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Review of A Star Is Born (1937)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2009

William Wellman’s 1937 version of this oft-told tale, of the rising starlet and the plummeting alcoholic has-been she refuses to cast aside,…

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Review of The Mortal Storm (1940)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Nov 2003

Romance becomes the irritant and, effectively, Borzage positions his romanticism as a contribution to Hollywood's anti-fascist crusade…

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Review of Manhattan (1979)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Apr 2003

Gordon Willis's too-dark lensing is an ideal match for the Scenes from a Marriage-inspired sequences of marital and amorous discord…

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Review of Metropolitan (1990)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jan 2002

Metropolitan celebrates and mourns the specific character of a place and time, youthful associations and crushes, a toolkit of values, even…

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Review of Ghost World (2001)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 06 Oct 2001

What makes the movie special is the way it critiques the central characters, Enid and Rebecca, as harshly as the pair critiques the world around them…

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Review of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 11 Sep 2001

Occupies worlds of the natural, the supernatural, and the (wilfully, purposefully, and often wittily) clichéd…

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Review of South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 29 Aug 2001

It's best not to ask too many questions - better just to switch your brain to stand-by and enjoy the show…

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Jaime N. Christley has written reviews for:

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