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Review of Reclaim (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2014

Reclaim's highly mechanized plot ensures that the film is over before it even ends…

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Review of Tracks (2013)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2014

The feminist bent of Robyn's quest nicely shadows the film without ever being stated aloud…

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Review of Beloved Sisters (2014)

By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2014

It blossoms into a breezily utopian depiction of a ménage á trois whose entirely matter-of-fact presentation sets up an intriguing dissonance…

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Review of Swim Little Fish Swim (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2014

It subtly counteracts the cliché that creative expression can save your life by making its protagonist a hipster Peter Pan whose creative…

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Review of Art and Craft (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2014

The filmmakers profile the prolific Mark Landis with a non-judgmental straightforwardness that allows the sheer brazenness of his scams to…

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Review of Space Station 76 (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2014

As a space-opera lampoon, it's incoherent primarily because it's never clear what the filmmakers are attempting to spoof…

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Review of The Zero Theorem (2013)

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

Terry Gilliam has imposed a mix tape of his greatest hits, whose greatness was debatable to begin with, on a whiff of a story that might've…

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Review of The Guest (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Sep 2014

David's perversity as a character is mostly disarming for how it illuminates the sadness with which a foe can so readily be confused for a savior…

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Review of Rosewater (2014)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2014

The film celebrates Bahari emerging rattled though mostly unscathed, but I couldn't help but feel only dread for that man taking his place…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2014

Meticulous in its adherence to conventional narrative inducement, this biopic only offers a sanded-down and embossed vision of Stephen Hawking…

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Review of Tusk (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2014

It suggests the worst possible gene splice of a barbed Terrance and Phillip South Park appearance, Fargo's blithe condescension, and the smuggest…

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Review of The Tribe (2014)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2014

The film's second half descends into increasingly explicit and shocking displays of violence, and, in fact, all of The Tribe is defined by…

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Review of The Drop (1965)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2014

With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past…

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Review of The Drop (2006)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2014

With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past…

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Review of The Tribe (2016)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2014

The film's second half descends into increasingly explicit and shocking displays of violence, and, in fact, all of The Tribe is defined by…

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Review of The Drop (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2014

With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past…

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Review of The Skeleton Twins (2014)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2014

Craig Johnson's film is ultimately most interested in what its jokes are implying or obscuring about the jokesters themselves…

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Review of Archaeology of a Woman (2014)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2014

It purports to be an incisive character study dramatized through outré dream logic, but Sharon Greytak's ineptitude at this very Lynchian…

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Review of Open City (2008)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2014

Roberto Rossellini's film owes part of its emotional power to its mixture of politico-religious symbolism and quotidian humor…

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Review of Bird People (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2014

Pascale Ferran's film isn't daring enough to fully embrace the narrative fragmentation that it sporadically assumes…

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