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Review of God Help the Girl (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Sep 2014

Stuart Murdoch clearly knows quite a bit about crafting pop tunes, but the film's consideration of the work of songwriting is totally flippant…

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Review of Last Days in Vietnam (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Sep 2014

For American viewers who don't know, the doc will be a worthy footnote to a long bout of deliberate cultural amnesia, but it's too telling…

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Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2014

The pleasure in watching the film becomes a linguistic one as Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart masterfully sharpen their words and hurl…

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Review of Memphis (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2014

The film's music is the city itself as well as a subtle suggestion that Tim Sutton's own digital cinema is just as elusive and intangible as…

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Review of Frontera (2014)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2014

By turns abrasive and stately, sermonic and impartial, plot-heavy and meandering, often within seconds of each other…

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Review of Life of Riley (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2014

Alain Resnais's overpoweringly beautiful final film dares to push through the ghosts that inhabit the present, standing between the pessimism…

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Review of Kelly & Cal (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2014

A romantic drama complicated by a stroller and a wheelchair, and its first mistake is in assuming some kind of equity between the two vehicles…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2014

Unremarkable films propped up by exceptional lead performances are as much a certainty of the autumnal season as yellow leaves and pumpkin patches…

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Review of The Identical (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Aug 2014

The film's so preoccupied with being inspirational that it disastrously fails to evoke the allure of rock n' roll, particularly in America…

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Review of Deepsea Challenge 3D (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Aug 2014

Less explored in all the ensuing back-patting is the question of whether Cameron is, in fact, sincerely interested in learning more about the…

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Review of Life of Crime (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Aug 2014

Down to its too-crisp rubber Nixon masks, Daniel Schechter's film revels in obnoxiously self-aware period detail…

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Review of As Above, So Below (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Aug 2014

The film predictably alternates in scaring its characters by tapping into their deepest fears and having them rub shoulders with the relics…

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Review of The November Man (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Aug 2014

Roger Donaldson embellishes an already overly plotty scenario with hollowly attractive genre superfluities…

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Review of Starred Up (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Aug 2014

The cautious optimism with which it answers questions about rehabilitation and forgiveness is credible because the characters and setting feel…

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Review of The Damned (2014)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Aug 2014

From its first draw of blood onward, it bolts down a foreseeable slasher-movie trajectory, laying on thick the dramatic irony while constantly…

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Review of Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Aug 2014

The film's attempt at political commentary amounts to a half-baked treatise on good governance in the face of tyranny and socioeconomic exploitation…

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Review of Last Weekend (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Aug 2014

The filmmakers are content to idealize everyone's unchecked narcissism and idle privilege--an inquiry-free recipe for disaster in an age when…

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Review of The Calling (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Aug 2014

The premise of faith-based assisted suicide as a motivating factor for a madman's killing spree is initially intriguing, but quickly revealed…

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Review of Stray Dogs (2014)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Aug 2014

Tsai isn't making a social-problem film here, and his critique of patriarchal control is secondary to his portrait of unbearable psychic conditions…

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Review of Stray Dogs (2014)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Aug 2014

Tsai isn't making a social-problem film here, and his critique of patriarchal control is secondary to his portrait of unbearable psychic conditions…

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