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Review of The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Dec 2014

The charm of the gimmick in Lubitsch’s take (directing a script by Samuel Raphaelson, who had collaborated with the German-born filmmaker…

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Review of The Gambler (1974)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Dec 2014

The filmmakers delve into a fantasyland of luxe coastal casinos and neon-lit bathhouses--as shrug-worthy a stab at picturing the contemporary…

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Review of The Gambler (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Dec 2014

The filmmakers delve into a fantasyland of luxe coastal casinos and neon-lit bathhouses--as shrug-worthy a stab at picturing the contemporary…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Dec 2014

This PG-rated romp is, refreshingly, less notable for its happily-ever-afters than its oh-no-they-didn'ts…

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Review of Song of the Sea (2014)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Dec 2014

Even as it entertains increasingly far-fetched detours, the film's folkloric narrative offers an ideal vehicle for this pictorial play…

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Review of Salma (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Dec 2014

What will make the film essential for future generations isn't mere flashpoint topicality, but the way it aligns an old struggle with a current one…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Dec 2014

What will make the film essential for future generations isn't mere flashpoint topicality, but the way it aligns an old struggle with a current one…

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Review of Unbroken (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Dec 2014

The film's chief misstep is taking its title too literally, and ultimately depicting Louie as an indestructible, and thus largely inhuman, superhero…

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Review of The Interview (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Dec 2014

It essentially uses a major global issue to cheaply dress up what is two hours of hit-and-miss erection jokes…

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Review of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Dec 2014

This third and supposedly final edition in the franchise is nothing more than an uncomfortably transparent contractual obligation…

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Review of A Most Violent Year (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Dec 2014

J.C. Chandor's fondness for situational irony is empowered by the spartan efficiency of his method, and that of most of his performers…

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Review of Goodbye to All That (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Dec 2014

If Junebug focused on quieter moments of extended family dynamics, with its city-meets-country clashes delving into resonant, region-specific…

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Review of Annie (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Dec 2014

2014: Annie's America makes director John Huston's elephantine, synthetically charismatic 1982 adaptation look like a Minnelliesque model of…

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Review of Winter Sleep (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Dec 2014

Staring deep into the darkness of an apparently static character, Nuri Bilge Ceylan again exhibits his gift for making interesting stories…

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Review of If You Don't, I Will (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Dec 2014

The actors play off one another beautifully, but the film bottoms out just as it's getting warmed up…

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Review of Maidan (2014)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Dec 2014

It puts the viewer inside Maidan, allowing them to draw their own conclusions about the ideas and agendas espoused by the movement's leaders…

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Review of Leviathan (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Dec 2014

Andrey Zvyagintsev never loses sight of the humans, who're allowed to display improvisatory behavior that deepens the majesty of the rigorously…

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Review of Free the Nipple (2014)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Dec 2014

This is kind of didactic topical movie that distributes its rhetoric evenly between characters with clear distinction as to who's playing devil's…

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Review of Big Eyes (2014)

By Matt Brennan (26) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Dec 2014

In style as in content, it offers neither the granular detail of more subtle period pieces nor enough of Tim Burton's spirited eccentricity…

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Review of Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Dec 2014

Broomfield isn't so much dedicated to journalistic truth or social ethnography as he is displaying bodies and mindsets of individuals that…

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