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Review of 99 Homes (2015)

By Mark Lukenbill (1) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Sep 2015

Ramin Bahrani's talent for orchestrating sequences of tightly wound tension is in full bloom here, as is his complementary knack for quieter…

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Review of The Keeping Room (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2015

Director Daniel Barber uses a bleak and unresolved portion of American history to justify indulging typical genre-film nihilism…

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Review of The Assassin (2015)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2015

The film carves out a rich emotional sphere concomitant to its stunning production design, finding delicate poetry in the dispassionate pursuit…

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Review of Ashby (2015)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2015

The film displays little ability to utilize Ashby's violent actions for means other than high-concept fodder and out-of-place bloodshed…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2015

It feels less like an cautionary adventure movie or the classy Hollywood equivalent of a Reader's Digest Drama in Real Life and much more like…

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Review of The Green Inferno (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2015

The savagery here is rooted in retrograde myths that might have been easier to stomach had the cannibalism been positioned as a fantastical…

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Review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2015

Every set piece brings to mind an Epcot Center attraction built from borrowed parts, geared toward reinforcing the young audience's belief…

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Review of Black Mass (2015)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2015

Like any crime saga without a more potent thematic hook, the film's relentlessly insular script dwells on themes of loyalty and fraternity…

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Review of Son of Saul (2015)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2015

The technique continually impresses even as the moral perspective of the enterprise is ultimately squelched by all the aural-visual gimmickry…

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Review of Pawn Sacrifice (2015)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2015

It's best appreciated as a tragicomic profile of a man whose extraordinary talent was undermined by the farcical political reality in which…

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Review of Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2015

The premise, of a terrible event unleavened by the easy out of someone being at fault, should be prime fodder for Wenders's brand of poetic regret…

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Review of Prophet's Prey (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2015

One watches the film with an escalating sense of disbelief and horror, as Warren Jeffs is steadily revealed to be an even greater monster than…

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Review of Freeheld (2015)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2015

The filmmakers, for better and for worse, stay out of the actresses' way, as Freeheld's artistry is so unadorned that the performances somehow…

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Review of Prey (2019)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2015

One watches the film with an escalating sense of disbelief and horror, as Warren Jeffs is steadily revealed to be an even greater monster than…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2015

Set among a family of Puritan exiles in the wilderness of unmolested New England as strange and ominous forces beset them, the film often looks…

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Review of Sicario (2015)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Sep 2015

Denis Villeneuve's film views life in the age of the modern-day drug war as an ever-crescendoing existential nightmare…

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Review of Songs From the North (2015)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Sep 2015

North Korean culture is lensed in part through a South Korean perspective, with the final chapter asking: “Is reunification possible?”…

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Review of In Jackson Heights (2015)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2015

Light in darkness and darkness in light; for every affirmative moment, Wiseman finds a complementary negative…

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Review of The Perfect Guy (2015)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2015

It uses convention to its advantage through an intriguing play with casting choices and bizarrely effective allusions to film history…

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Review of The Assassin (2015)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2015

One of Hou's constant themes (one that recurs in the work of many of the notable Taiwanese directors) is alienation, not just of a personal,…

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