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Review of Little Feet (2013)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Dec 2014

This is a micro-budgeted affair of the heart that's never precious or obnoxious, but tender and moving and occasionally explosive in its intrinsic…

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Review of We Are the Giant (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Dec 2014

It ironically reveals its intent to suture shut any remote ambivalence regarding its own gung-ho ethos, in effect engaging the same sort of…

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Review of Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Dec 2014

Director Chuck Workman's simply compiles Welles's greatest moments, offering little in the way of an authorial point of view…

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Review of The Captive (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Dec 2014

The film has the plot of an intensely lurid thriller, but Atom Egoyan can't bring himself to face that and actively tend to the story; instead,…

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Review of American Sniper (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Dec 2014

Clint Eastwood startlingly grips the audience with his sense of hypnotic silence, which carries suggestions of what might be termed politically…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Dec 2014

It doesn't take long to realize that Ridley Scott's adaptation is only aiming for certain forms of credibility, and callously eschewing others…

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Review of Still Alice (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Dec 2014

Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart's artful consideration of familial friction acerbated by disease, and vice versa, nearly saves Still Alice…

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Review of Miss Julie (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Dec 2014

The film is no tearjerker, but it makes the stage play's hidebound, soul-baring pleasures mesmerizing on screen, and without copping to reductivism…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Dec 2014

Director Jean-Marc Vallée has created a film out of Cheryl Strayed's beloved 2012 memoir that never quite matches the blunt audacity of its…

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Review of Concerning Violence (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Dec 2014

Here is a film that isn't afraid to risk didacticism in order to put across its vision of the debilitating physical and psychological effects…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Richard Scott Larson (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Dec 2014

These films, and Tolkien's entire oeuvre, are most affecting in their depictions of friendship, and the performances here represent plutonic…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Richard Larson (27) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Dec 2014

These films, and Tolkien's entire oeuvre, are most affecting in their depictions of friendship, and the performances here represent platonic…

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Review of Comet (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Nov 2014

Its time-jumping strategy cleverly illuminates the way in which we go over and fixate on isolated incidents in our minds of breakups past…

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Review of Dying of the Light (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Nov 2014

Paul Schrader's personality reveals itself in the film's joylessness, which is meaningless without the director's accompanying and occasionally…

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Review of The Immortalists (2014)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Nov 2014

Some voices of reason and skepticism do make an appearance to rebut and deflate Bill and Aubrey's monumental claims, but aren't allowed to…

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Review of Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Nov 2014

If your answer to the question When are rape jokes funny…

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Review of Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Nov 2014

If your answer to the question When are rape jokes funny…

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Review of Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Nov 2014

Anthony Powell's vision as a filmmaker is frustratingly limited to an information-style presentation that doubles as an enthusiastic advert…

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Review of The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Nov 2014

The documentary is hesitant to show the great work that resulted from Hayao Miyazaki's grand hobby, never including clips from the classics…

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Review of Before I Disappear (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Nov 2014

Even at its most compelling, it remains inconsistent and superfluous, a lesson that sometimes a movie can feel more fully formed in 19 minutes…

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