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Review of Annabelle (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Oct 2014

It's all a far cry from James Wan's The Conjuring, which embraced the thrill of the paranormal even as it respected its frazzled, earthbound…

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Review of Timbuktu (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Sep 2014

The film's criticism isn't primarily rooted in satire, but rather in fury and condemnation for those who seek to be gods while shamefully feigning…

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Review of Eden (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2014

Every substrata of music geekdom deserves a period piece as intimate as Eden, Mia Hansen-Løve's swan song for the golden era of French house music…

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Review of Last Hijack (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2014

It intriguingly invites us to think about the mundane forces that can drive a seemingly ordinary guy like Mohamed to do something so desperate…

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Review of Eden (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2014

Every substrata of music geekdom deserves a period piece as intimate as Eden, Mia Hansen-Løve's swan song for the golden era of French house music…

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Review of The Decent One (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2014

The Decent One operates under a discursive premise so presumptuous and flimsy that its attempted function as an experiential documentary proffers…

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Review of The Hero of Color City (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2014

No cartoon has ever conveyed the struggle for self-actualization with such an inexpressive sense of imagination as this cheap and glorified…

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Review of Nas: Time Is Illmatic (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Sep 2014

While the trivia value may feel tremendous, only One9's interviews with Nas, his father, Olu Dara, and his brother, Jungle, manage to make…

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Review of Men, Women & Children (2014)

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

Jason Reitman fails to take into account any of the positive endeavors enabled by social media, which will no doubt be used to promote and…

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Review of Inner Demons (2014)

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

There's a disingenuous offering of pathos to accompany the film's ridiculous and violent denouement…

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Review of Fishing Without Nets (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2014

Though this setup is perhaps infused with too much piety, cheating audience empathy toward the main character, it nonetheless generates a compelling…

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Review of Drive Hard (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2014

Drive Hard is the action-film equivalent of one of those folks who relentlessly speak of having it tough all over as they plan their third…

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Review of Fishing Without Nets (2012)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2014

Though this setup is perhaps infused with too much piety, cheating audience empathy toward the main character, it nonetheless generates a compelling…

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Review of Days and Nights (2014)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Sep 2014

The drama over dinner comes in small analgesic portions, and the secrets feel canned and the dialogue is too pretty to be believable…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

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

There's a comic streak to the film that suggests David Fincher may understand the material as trash, but it's the kind of affectation that…

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Review of The Equalizer (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2014

All this should build up to a moderately engaging battle of wits, but Richard Wenk's script has little interest in wit and no capacity for psychology…

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Review of The Boxtrolls (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2014

The flippancy toward the story's thematic concerns and character construction suggests that the film, like the boxtrolls' myriad gadgets and…

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Review of Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2014

Opting for scenes that tend to be fragmented, flawed snippets from a much bigger story, the film exudes a bizarre confidence in not trying…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Sep 2014

Of Bennett Miller's many directorial feats, his canniest is his depiction of the precariousness of bonds, and how those bonds can shift, drastically…

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Review of Björk: Biophilia Live (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Sep 2014

You can't help but be impressed by how much it represents a natural, even defensive evolutionary step on its creator's part…

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