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Review of Waiting for August (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2014

The distinct lack of domestic drama is precisely what makes the doc so gratifying as a portrait of a family averting turmoil in spite of challenging…

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Review of Fishing Without Nets (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2014

Though this setup is perhaps infused with too much piety, cheating audience empathy toward the main character, it nonetheless generates a compelling…

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Review of Fishing Without Nets (2012)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2014

Though this setup is perhaps infused with too much piety, cheating audience empathy toward the main character, it nonetheless generates a compelling…

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Review of Swim Little Fish Swim (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2014

It subtly counteracts the cliché that creative expression can save your life by making its protagonist a hipster Peter Pan whose creative…

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Review of The Man On Her Mind (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2014

The film suggests an ineffectual mishmash of Ruby Sparks-ish high concept and modern Elizabethan comedy…

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Review of The Calling (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Aug 2014

The premise of faith-based assisted suicide as a motivating factor for a madman's killing spree is initially intriguing, but quickly revealed…

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Review of May in the Summer (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Aug 2014

Cherien Dabis is least successful at connecting her character May's marital crisis to the rumblings of her repressed heritage…

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Review of The Maid's Room (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Aug 2014

Drina is less of an individual, and one whom we wish to see avenged, than a transparent martyr for the collective sins of the wealthy few…

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Review of Behaving Badly (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Jul 2014

Falls back on the trappings of the film's innumerable teenage gross-out forefathers with tiresome vulgarity and rote misunderstandings in place…

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Review of The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jun 2014

The film is far from a technical matter, fiercely promoting Swartz's legacy and challenging us with the same questions its central subject…

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Review of Coherence (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Jun 2014

The film's impression of personas is less traditionally sinister than representative of its inquiry into identity and what happens when social…

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Review of Lullaby (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Jun 2014

Garrett Hedlund's performance throbs with an anguish that's far more honest than the sentimental euthanasia subplot at the center of the film…

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Review of Lullaby (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Jun 2014

Garrett Hedlund's performance throbs with an anguish that's far more honest than the sentimental euthanasia subplot at the center of the film…

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Review of Filth (2013)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 May 2014

Ultimately, the film is too nihilistic to believe its protagonist can be saved, declaring him a lost soul and satisfied to let him suffer…

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Review of God's Pocket (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 May 2014

Throughout, it becomes difficult to know whether we're meant to empathize with these characters or laugh at them…

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Review of 13 Sins (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Apr 2014

Daniel Stamm's film is solidly helmed, if expectedly over-reliant on unnecessarily grisly comeuppances that leave nothing to the imagination…

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Review of Brothers Hypnotic (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Mar 2014

There are grudges held amid all the good will, an intention of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble to do things on their terms, and those terms stem…

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