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Review of Gente de bien (2014)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Sep 2014

It only overcomes its deficiencies and gains a modicum of entertainment value precisely when it commits to its illogical storylines and exaggerated…

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Review of Pride (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Sep 2014

The film the tough true story has spawned is as formulaically cheery, didactically uplifting, and fundamentally false as a Disney sports movie…

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Review of Two Night Stand (2014)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Sep 2014

It's attempt at conveying a candid portrait of contemporary hookup culture and the dishonesty of online dating profiles, but the film's sentiments…

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Review of Good People (2014)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Sep 2014

It only overcomes its deficiencies and gains a modicum of entertainment value precisely when it commits to its illogical storylines and exaggerated…

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Review of Lilting (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2014

Lilting doesn't have any momentum or any sense of ambiguity, once the setup has been established…

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Review of Maps to the Stars (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2014

For these fractured family units, incest seems the natural endgame of a merit system based exclusively on pernicious nepotism and inveterate…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2014

The Dardennes believe in human value and social order being rooted in a sense of solidarity, a staggering consciousness of community that brims…

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Review of The Two Faces of January (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2014

Superbly acted and sporadically intriguing thriller, yet it has a difficult time locating more stringent meaning and significance beyond its…

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Review of Maps to the Stars (2014)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2014

If the research that Cronenberg and Wagner engaged in for Maps to the Stars oftentimes appears more entomological than sociological, there's…

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Review of Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2014)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2014

The film is at once enabled and hindered by its utter strangeness, an intrinsic quality surely exacerbated in its English-language release…

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Review of Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2014

It culminates in a weepy climax that verifies its status as a proud hunk of propaganda from America's massive self-help industry…

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Review of Pasolini (2014)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2014

Working in the most white elephantine of genres, Ferrara has produced one of its few termitic entries…

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Review of This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2014

And the jury's still very much out over whether Shawn Levy is an inept comedy director masquerading as an opportunistically dramatic one, or…

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Review of The Maze Runner (2014)

By Richard Scott Larson (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2014

A curious blend of our newly acquired taste for dystopia alongside a healthy sprinkling of Lord of the Flies, the film offers familiar pleasures…

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Review of '71 (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2014

It distinguishes itself from Pual Greengrass's films by virtue of its close attention to political and moral ambiguities…

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Review of The Maze Runner (2014)

By Richard Larson (27) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2014

A curious blend of our newly acquired taste for dystopia alongside a healthy sprinkling of Lord of the Flies, the film offers familiar pleasures…

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Review of Fort Bliss (2014)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2014

The complicated psychological realities of army personnel require a tougher directorial treatment than the maudlin melodrama presented here…

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Review of Pump (2014)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2014

The doc does a good job of avoiding partisan caterwauling, limiting its argument to a clear thesis and well-articulated supporting statements…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2014

The thrill of watching Fletcher and Neyman's fray unfold is intensified by Damien Chazelle's attention to the craft and challenge of musicianship…

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Review of A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2014

All of Scott Frank's thematic concerns are little more than window dressing for a run-of-the-mill detective story in line with '90s thrillers…

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