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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Oct 2014

It comes down on the essential hollowness of traditional gender roles like the avalanche that proves to be its inciting event…

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Review of E-Team (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Oct 2014

There's edifying information in the documentary, but it's tainted by forced dramatic tactics…

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Review of The Heart Machine (2014)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Oct 2014

It showcases a genuine fascination with the mind/body split engendered by Skyping, online dating, and constant app usage through a plot that…

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Review of Exists (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Oct 2014

In the wake of Bobcat Goldthwait's Wolf Creek, Exists's metaphorical ambitions are as under-realized as its story-circumscribing use of found footage…

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Review of White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Oct 2014

Gregg Araki's film suggests a hothouse melodrama that's been drained of the hothouse, the melodrama, and any other discernably dramatic stakes…

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Review of Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Oct 2014

Like Better Luck Tomorrow, it tries to cut cool-movie poses under the pretense of providing an alternative racial viewpoint to typical genre tropes…

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Review of The Killers (1964)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Oct 2014

The Killers redux packs one lasting, significant, retrospective jolt of perversity that far eclipses any possible artistic intentions on the…

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Review of Camp X-Ray (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Oct 2014

Peter Sattler's film feels quintessentially Sundance: an expensively mounted treatise on important issues that's terrified to dig in obsessively,…

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Review of The Best of Me (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Oct 2014

Even permitting that the movie's setup counts almost by default as one of Nicholas Sparks's more complicated scenarios, that makes his failure…

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Review of Diplomacy (2014)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Oct 2014

The film isn't really fooling anyone into feeling doom-laden suspense (Paris, after all, is still standing), but the principal performers sell…

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Review of The Book of Life (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2014

Jorge R…

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Review of Watchers of the Sky (2014)

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

This is, to put it mildly, a lot of information for one documentary, which inevitably devolves to resemble not so much an anthology as a slideshow…

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Review of Citizenfour (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Oct 2014

Laura Poitras teaches by example, providing a privileged insight into Edward Snowden's personality and motivation while keeping the focus on…

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Review of Rudderless (2014)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Oct 2014

It unnecessarily hampers itself for over an hour for the sake of a gotcha moment before finally allowing its actors to explore something more…

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Review of Young Ones (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Oct 2014

It avoids the typical trappings of the genre pastiche by utilizing its clear indebtedness to numerous other films as merely a starting point,…

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Review of Felony (2014)

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

It reveals itself to be a profoundly cynical movie posing as a work of idealism, and it's all the more insidious because it's otherwise so…

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Review of Felony (2014)

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

It reveals itself to be a profoundly cynical movie posing as a work of idealism, and it's all the more insidious because it's otherwise so…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Oct 2014

It places regurgitated ideas into the mouths of gifted actors, then drops them amid a kooky story that plays like an elaborate distraction…

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Review of Summer of Blood (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Oct 2014

Onur Tukel is able to offer a reasonably fresh spin on familiar vampire-movie tropes, giving pitiless misanthropy pedal-to-the-metal comic wit…

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Review of Housebound (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Oct 2014

You grow to feel as if you're arbitrarily changing the channel back and forth from a diverting horror film to a promising odd-couple comedy…

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