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Review of Birdman (2015)

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 The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014)

By Ela Bittencourt (29) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Oct 2014

The film becomes akin to variations on a theme, executed with visual finesse, and enhanced by its many rich textures…

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Review of Fury (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Oct 2014

The film itself is a lumbering tank of a movie, chunky, loud, and clumsy, mulching down men into meat as proof of its dramatic seriousness…

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Review of One Chance (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Oct 2014

David Frankel crams his story with predictable developments, yet he matches his subject in spirit, pushing something into the spotlight that,…

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Review of St. Vincent (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Oct 2014

The actors create emotionally coherent and sympathetic characters from a collection of often contradictory, monumentally irresponsible, or…

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Review of Listen Up Philip (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Oct 2014

By putting so much weight on his characters' speech, Alex Ross Perry's is an approach with honestly few contemporaries in American independent film…

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Review of The Judge (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Oct 2014

One long trial of moral duty, and one that excuses repugnant behavior and psychological warfare in lieu of a repetitive, condescending sermon…

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Review of Dracula Untold (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Oct 2014

It's a story arc that wouldn't be out of place on Game of Thrones, except it lacks for the HBO program's dense and surprising dramatic reflexes…

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Review of Keep On Keepin' On (2014)

By Timothy E. Raw (4) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Oct 2014

Slowly, the powerful message of heart and soul winning out over an impaired body and over-thinking mind develops into the core drama of this…

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Review of Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014)

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

By formally acknowledging the material's inherent silliness ad nauseam, the filmmakers have distanced themselves from the spirit of the parody,…

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Review of Kill the Messenger (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Oct 2014

The film devolves quickly into a pedestrian character study that basks in Gary Webb's public shaming and victimization, losing sight of the…

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Review of Automata (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Oct 2014

Much like a spate of recent summer blockbusters, there's a tiring sense that every single facet of the narrative has to be rendered with truculent…

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Review of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Oct 2014

The expansion has the unintended and unfortunate effect of doing exactly the same thing to Alexander he accused his family of doing in the…

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Review of Catch Hell (2014)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Oct 2014

The story allows for Ryan Phillippe to indulge in a self-deprecating brand of satire, but he can't work up enough courage to ever make his…

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Review of Waiting for August (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2014

The distinct lack of domestic drama is precisely what makes the doc so gratifying as a portrait of a family averting turmoil in spite of challenging…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2014

The dangers of filmmakers trying to replicate a golden era rather than embrace the present are part and parcel of Inherent Vice, but the ramifications…

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Review of The Overnighters (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2014

If it ultimately can't reconcile all that's presented in its too-brief runtime, that's largely because its situation, much like the dissonance…

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Review of Left Behind (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Oct 2014

Left Behind is one of those films so deeply, fundamentally terrible that it feels unwittingly high-concept…

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Review of The Good Lie (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Oct 2014

This is a Hollywood-delivered chronicle of the immigrant experience that earns its justification through good will and tact…

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Review of Time Out of Mind (2015)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Oct 2014

The film isn't preachy, but its indie-movie artiness sometimes get in the way of its noble mission, making us think more about the techniques…

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