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Review of Penance (2014)

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

The film is ultimately, and disappointingly, revealed to be a contraption that's less concerned with mental portraiture than with getting all…

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Review of Beyond the Lights (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Nov 2014

By rooting Noni's self-image issues in a controlling mother, the script provides the film with a tame, melodramatic structure that dulls the…

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Review of Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Nov 2014

This is a confident work that smashingly updates the Southern gothic for contemporary generations…

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Review of A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Nov 2014

Whereas Bad Santa was nastier and riskier, as well as more mischievously winsome, A Merry Friggin' Christmas is as curiously timid as it is…

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Review of Wolves (2014)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Nov 2014

The cinematographic approach of the film suggests some unholy hybrid of the aesthetic and genre indulgences of Michael Bay and the hyper-literalist…

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Review of Bad Turn Worse (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Nov 2014

A reminder that crime movies pointedly inspired by other, better genre films can still be enjoyable, if they wear their influences lightly…

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Review of The Homesman (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Nov 2014

If there's any ambiguity to be found in the film's prolonged last gasps, which reach for tragedy, but only sow more epistemic confusion, it's…

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Review of Night of the Lepus (1972)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Nov 2014

William F…

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Review of Pelican Dreams (2014)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Nov 2014

The film is spare, empathic, and deeply introspective, and its imagery, such as a pelican fascinated by its own reflection, is so sublime in…

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Review of Jessabelle (2014)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Nov 2014

Rather than commit to exploring Jessabelle's existential crisis, the filmmakers opt to pile on the clichés straight until the rotten denouement…

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Review of Big Hero 6 (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Nov 2014

The film quickly becomes a study of grief and retribution, and the question of how exactly technology can and should be utilized in the treatment…

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Review of Big Hero 6 (2014)

By Chris Heller (1) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Nov 2014

The film quickly becomes a study of grief and retribution, and the question of how exactly technology can and should be utilized in the treatment…

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Review of Open Windows (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Nov 2014

Timidity and perhaps fear, of visual confinement, of lingering emotional engagement, closes Nacho Vigalondo's most promising windows…

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Review of The Way He Looks (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2014

What progressively mounts tension is the film's understanding of a boy's gradually realized homosexuality as being inextricable from the central…

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Review of Hangar 10 (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2014

It's easy to see how Daniel Simpson's desire to return the found-footage genre to its roots resulted in cheap imitation…

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Review of 21 Years: Richard Linklater (2014)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2014

Of greatest damage to the doc's coherence is its wholehearted belief that its subjects are offering firsthand reports worth hearing…

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Review of Virunga (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2014

This is muckraking journalism that moves confidently with the brio of an action thriller…

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Review of Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2014

Refusing to mourn anything, displaying a Futurist-style disdain for the past, Sion Sono imagines a world in which static adherence to old ideas…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2014

Much like his hero, Christopher Nolan's goal seems to be to take the humor and wildness out of imagination, to see invention in rigidly practical…

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Review of Safe (1995)

By Sal Cinquemani (9) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Nov 2014

We know nothing of this woman’s inner-traumas, the repressed memories or hidden pains of her youth, yet Moore, in an extraordinary milestone…

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