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Review of Insurgent (2015)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Mar 2015

A Little Golden Book version of drastically simplified socialism accompanied with a healthy dose of warmongering bravado…

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Review of Backcountry (2015)

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

After a surprising development, the film grows slack and sentimental, reverting to the survival-movie platitude about hardship making you a…

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Review of Lily & Kat (2015)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Mar 2015

It passive-aggressively seems to suggest that anyone who isn't exactly interested in monogamy may be some kind of selfish, intolerable sociopath…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2015)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Mar 2015

In the third act, the film devolves into an extremely unsettling series of sadistic tortures, the kind of stuff that would appeal largely to…

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Review of The Nightmare (2010)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Mar 2015

The Nightmare exhausts whatever built-in intrigue it has by at least the third or fourth more-or-less identical retelling…

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Review of The Nightmare (2015)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Mar 2015

The Nightmare exhausts whatever built-in intrigue it has by at least the third or fourth more-or-less identical retelling…

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Review of The Nightmare (2015)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Mar 2015

The Nightmare exhausts whatever built-in intrigue it has by at least the third or fourth more-or-less identical retelling…

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Review of Amour Fou (2015)

By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2015

Jessica Hausner is less interested in historical revisionism than mining this real-life tragedy for its existential thrust…

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Review of Entertainment (2015)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2015

It conjures a menacing perspective on how the titular occupation hulls out empathy and cultivates a particularly unsettling strain of cynicism…

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Review of Manglehorn (2015)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2015

Mangelhorn is too talky by half, especially when two or even three scenes are superimposed on one another, their soundtracks running simultaneously…

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Review of Danny Collins (2015)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2015

The chemistry between Pacino and his cast mates gives this lightly amusing contrivance surprising emotional resonance…

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Review of The Gunman (2015)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2015

The lack of any visual ingenuity, reflexivity, or awareness of genre tropes diminishes the intermittent pleasures of the action's slightly…

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Review of Tired Moonlight (2015)

By Sean Nam (5) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2015

It's to Britni West's credit that she's yoked the film's experimental sequences with the hard reality of characters trying to figure things out…

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Review of Los Hongos (2014)

By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2015

It crafts its meandering, unobtrusively utopian worldview in such all-enveloping fashion that it feels almost incongruous once actual violence…

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Review of White God (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2015

It affects a general air of artistically inclined realism, but it's mostly concerned with building tension via a steady accumulation of flatly…

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Review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2015

True to its title, Marielle Heller's adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's semi-autobiographical novel has the loosely structured, unfiltered feel…

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Review of Mercuriales (2014)

By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2015

By the time the film has started explicitly referencing its own dreamlike, fairy-tale atmosphere, the air has well and truly gone out of this…

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Review of Christmas, Again (2015)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2015

Charles Poekel displays an assured directorial hand and maintains a modest, appealing, even droll sensibility throughout…

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Review of You're Sleeping, Nicole (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2015

Stéphane Lafleur denies Nicole the angsty treatments given similar characters in films like The Graduate and Frances Ha by refusing to saturate…

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Review of Court (2015)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2015

Chaitanya Tamhane's grand canvas is Indian society as represented by its legal system, and what it reveals is none too flattering…

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