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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Feb 2016

Joel and Ethan Coen's idiosyncrasies elevate the film above the level of a mere creative exercise…

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Review of Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Feb 2016

What comes through clearly by the end of the film is the act of one artist's eccentric generosity breathing new awareness into the life of another…

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Review of Jane Got a Gun (2015)

By Matt Brennan (26) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Jan 2016

It constantly blunders into stylistic choices and narrative clichés that sabotage the sturdy two-hander at its center…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Black (2016)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Jan 2016

An aimless, if sporadically clever, parody that tirelessly conceives of human sexuality as punchlines for its shortsighted cultural ribbings…

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Review of The Finest Hours (2016)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Jan 2016

A square journey through choppy waters, it boasts a Greatest Generation nostalgia so thoroughgoing it might as well be called Boys Becoming Men…

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Review of Everybody's Fine (2016)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jan 2016

It joins its American cousin in the scrapheap of family dramedies that no one watches, unless by default out of boredom on TBS or TNT…

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Review of Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jan 2016

It finds a benefit in its genre affiliation, evenly distributing its action in quick bursts of fluidly animated fight choreography…

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Review of Lazer Team (2016)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jan 2016

The premise thoughtlessly combines elements from Marvel comics, Men and Black, and a swath of '80s pop culture to curiously neutered effect…

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Review of Salesman (1969)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jan 2016

An immersive drama that bridges real-life details with the catharses of parables with expressionistic on-the-fly camerawork, a blend of the…

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Review of Dirty Grandpa (2016)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jan 2016

As in Judd Apatow's films, crassness is boasted as shamelessness, and calculated sentimentality is dressed up as empathy…

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Review of The 5th Wave (2016)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jan 2016

The sense that children’s attitudes toward rampant militarization are being gradually normalized is the film's objectionable given…

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Review of Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Jan 2016

Donnie Yen's performance is so good that it's a shame Wilson Yip's films have never strived to be more than briskly entertaining hagiography…

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Review of Ip Man 3 (2015)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Jan 2016

Donnie Yen's performance is so good that it's a shame Wilson Yip's films have never strived to be more than briskly entertaining hagiography…

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Review of Perros Rabiosos (2016)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Jan 2016

There's no reason for Rabid Dogs to exist, as even character identity and motivation receives little attention…

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Review of Martyrs (2008)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jan 2016

It's hardly a desecration of Pascal Laugier's 2008 French horror film of the same name, but that assumes the original is a canonical text…

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Review of Prescription Thugs (2016)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jan 2016

It's symptomatic of the one-man-show form of polemical exposé that's come to dominate, and deteriorate, documentary practice…

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Review of Martyrs (2015)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jan 2016

It's hardly a desecration of Pascal Laugier's 2008 French horror film of the same name, but that assumes the original is a canonical text…

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Review of Ride Along 2 (2016)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Jan 2016

Like any serving of junk food, it seems engineered to give you that initial rush of satisfaction, but leaves you in a dead zone where the only…

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Review of The Secret Scripture (2017)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jan 2016

Of course, when the action gets underway, Bay unleashes that flashy id of his, and all of his flaws as a titan of blockbuster filmmaking come…

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Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jan 2016

Of course, when the action gets underway, Bay unleashes that flashy id of his, and all of his flaws as a titan of blockbuster filmmaking come…

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