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Review of National Gallery (2014)

By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Nov 2014

In the style of an ambling, yet entirely focused visitor, the film continually circles back to pictures, protagonists, and situations to furnish…

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Review of Actress (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Nov 2014

It convincingly reconciles private passion with public desire by suggesting that, for women in particular, the 21st-century limelight is always…

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Review of Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Oct 2014

It's hard to tell if the film is hampered or helped by the performances of its three stars, because it's so amateurishly written and directed…

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Review of Magical Universe (2014)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Oct 2014

To varying degrees of success, it attempts to prominently display Al Carbee's creations, yet keeps undermining his art in favor of investigating…

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Review of Private Peaceful (2012)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Oct 2014

By modestly embracing its inherent minimalism and finding the emotions underlying even the most schematic of scenarios, the film taps into…

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Review of Long Live Freedom (2013)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Oct 2014

It ultimately lacks the vision and conviction to honestly and meaningfully dissect a contemporary political movement's deep-seated structural malaise…

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Review of The Better Angels (2022)

By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Oct 2014

Even taking into consideration the fact the A.J…

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Review of Braddock America (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Oct 2014

It's mercifully free of the ruin-porn shots that turn so many contemporary films about struggling cities into self-consciously arty exercises…

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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Oct 2014

Dan Gilroy's directorial debut only offers a familiar vision of today's newsman and producers as misery peddlers, and callow ratings slaves…

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Review of Point and Shoot (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Oct 2014

In abandoning a more vigorous discussion of class and race-based senses of entitlement, Marshall Curry reveals his goals to be less critical…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Oct 2014

Given the liberties the film takes, it's surprising that it refuses to penetrate Alan Turing's carnality and allow Benedict Cumberbatch to…

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Review of The Imitation Game (1980)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Oct 2014

Given the liberties the film takes, it's surprising that it refuses to penetrate Alan Turing's carnality and allow Benedict Cumberbatch to…

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Review of Horns (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Oct 2014

For a story so unconventional, it's executed without director Alexandre Aja's typical commitment to anarchic awe…

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Review of The Great Invisible (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Oct 2014

It effectively demonstrates how the systemic cause of the Deepwater Horizon explosion was tied as much to society's staggering dependence on…

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Review of ABCs of Death 2 (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Oct 2014

Irony is a popular pose struck throughout these shorts, which are less revealing of the existentialist despair that death often rouses than…

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Review of Ouija (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Oct 2014

The film consistently settles for the cheapest shock devices and the most shopworn totems of our current neo-gothic moment in the genre…

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Review of Laggies (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Oct 2014

To Keira Knightley's credit, she's all too willing to undercut her pretty-girl reputation by looking and acting a fool for Lynn Shelton's camera…

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Review of John Wick (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Oct 2014

The film is thematically thin, and it has a tendency to embrace the action genre's more obnoxious elements, but there's a proudly no-nonsense…

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Review of Low Down (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Oct 2014

There's only so much that Fanning's vividly expressive face and Hawkes's charismatic sensitivity can mask before we realize how little we truly…

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Review of Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Oct 2014

In the wake of the ostentatious atmospherics summoned by the likes of Shutter Island and American Horror Story: Asylum, the film feels unnecessarily…

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