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Review of The Legend of Hercules (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Jan 2014

Given its virtuous subject matter and the relative bloodlessness of its violence, perhaps Renny Harlin means for this film to be a means of…

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Review of 47 Ronin (1994)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Dec 2013

This botched vision accepts the warrior's nobility at face value and sees the story merely as a springboard for high-flying action and CGI…

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Review of 47 Ronin (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Dec 2013

This botched vision accepts the warrior's nobility at face value and sees the story merely as a springboard for high-flying action and CGI…

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Review of Bettie Page Reveals All (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Nov 2013

Mark Mori goes a bit overboard in hammering home his appreciation of Bettie Page's significance, allowing the film to occasionally lapse into…

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Review of The Armstrong Lie (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Nov 2013

The film can't entirely avoid the feeling of a less-productive score-settling hit piece, as if Alex Gibney was making this film merely to stick…

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Review of These Birds Walk (2012)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Oct 2013

The filmmakers use a wide range of cinematic techniques to convey the tenuous environment in which their subjects find themselves…

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Review of Blood Brother (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2013

Rocky's journey of self-realization undoubtedly has a universal resonance to it that intermittently yields poignant and inspiring moments…

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Review of Linsanity (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2013

The interpolations of heavenly sequences of Jeremy Lin playing basketball against CGI backdrops offer a hokey visual analogue for the intersection…

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Review of Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2013

Anthony Wong does a creditable job of conveying Ip Man's reflectiveness through his twilight years, occasionally cutting through the hagiographic…

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Review of 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Sep 2013

If you grant the documentary its slanted perspective at the outset, it works well as its own state-of-the-union address…

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Review of Red Obsession (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Sep 2013

Offers the ins and outs of the world of wine as an implicit metaphor for art appreciation, from both aesthetic and financial standpoints…

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Review of Frankenstein's Army (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Jul 2013

The found-footage gimmick mostly comes off as window dressing for what turns out to be yet another mad-scientist-run-amok romp…

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Review of Copperhead (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jun 2013

Ron Maxwell's film, from beginning to end, exudes all the excitement of a textbook history lesson…

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Review of Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Mar 2013

Bob Byington's perspective may be above it all, but that doesn't quite account for the shades of melancholy that pop up unexpectedly in lines…

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Review of $ellebrity (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Jan 2013

Comes off as little more than a feature-length trashing of colleagues who director and celebrity photographer Kevin Mazur feels are giving…

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Review of Let Fury Have the Hour (2012)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Dec 2012

On a political level, the film is far from a Godardian dialectic, so the view of history that emerges is, to say the least, blinkered…

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Review of Generation P (2011)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Nov 2012

The film is incredibly cynical, but the experience of watching it is occasionally joyful in its sense of freedom…

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Review of Girl Walk // All Day (2011)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Oct 2012

You should always be happy…

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Review of They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain (2012)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2012

The images and interviews Robert H. Lieberman and his crew have managed to capture are eye-opening enough to justify the dangerous effort…

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Review of 17 Girls (2011)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2012

At which point does a superficially nonjudgmental approach simply seem coy rather than sincerely evenhanded…

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