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Review of Wolf Totem (2015)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2015

It becomes difficult to separate the natives from their communist masters in terms of their treatment of their natural surroundings…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2015

When the trademark Shyamalan twist finally arrives, it doesn't synthesize anything other than the director's devotion to his signature gimmick…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2015

When the (non-spoiler alert) trademark Shyamalan twist finally arrives, it doesn't synthesize anything other than the director's devotion to…

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Review of Coming Home (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2015

Coming Home is a film in which everyone's dreams are irrevocably broken, the pieces too small to grasp, let alone pick up…

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Review of Breathe (2015)

By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2015

Aside from the innate understanding of female friendship dynamics, it's hard to see exactly what else Mélanie Laurent brings to this overly…

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Review of Breathe (2015)

By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2015

Aside from the innate understanding of female friendship dynamics, it's hard to see exactly what else Mélanie Laurent brings to this overly…

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Review of Coming Home (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2015

Coming Home is a film in which everyone's dreams are irrevocably broken, the pieces too small to grasp, let alone pick up…

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Review of Sleeping with Other People (2015)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Sep 2015

This is exactly the kind of movie at which David Wain took aim with his sublime rom-com parody They Came Together…

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Review of X+Y (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Sep 2015

The film focuses on Nathan's emotions and backstage dramas in ways that generally feel forced or inauthentic…

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Review of Coming Home (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Sep 2015

Coming Home is a film in which everyone's dreams are irrevocably broken, the pieces too small to grasp, let alone pick up…

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Review of The Transporter Refueled (2015)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Sep 2015

The titular Transporter is now but a blank slate serving the characters and mayhem surrounding him, a walking metaphor for a franchise that's…

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Review of A Sinner in Mecca (2015)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Sep 2015

What the film lacks in narrative unity and aesthetic splendor it makes up in moral grandeur and ethical purpose…

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Review of Before We Go (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2015

The setup is so familiar that frustration sets in before the title has barely faded from view…

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Review of Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Aug 2015

It evinces a qualified kind of courage in its anonymous convictions, parodying a world that barely ever existed by barely existing itself…

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Review of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Aug 2015

It both feeds off of and perpetuates nostalgia for a time when the nation seemed more politically conscious and therefore more capable of creating…

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Review of Dragon Blade (2015)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Aug 2015

Slacker and even less involving than the similarly terrible global kill-fest Last Knights, but easier to watch for the inadvertent camp value…

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Review of Blind (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Aug 2015

Unfortunately, the film's occasionally thrilling visual sleight-of-hand comes at the ultimate service of a boilerplate early-mid-life-crisis drama…

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Review of Dirty Weekend (2015)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Aug 2015

Even if the title is meant to be ironic, the latest from writer-director Neil LaBute is a frustratingly stilted vision of middle-aged repression…

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Review of Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Aug 2015

It evinces a qualified kind of courage in its anonymous convictions, parodying a world that barely ever existed by barely existing itself…

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Review of We Are Your Friends (2015)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Aug 2015

As Zac Efront's Cole tiptoes away from his past, the film keenly observes a character who doesn't know how to secure his future, or his identity…

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