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Review of Stray Dogs (2014)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 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 Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Aug 2014

Thomas Allen Harris's documentary consistently takes agency away from the art itself with a litany of talking heads…

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Review of When the Game Stands Tall (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Aug 2014

Jim Caviezel commits only to the level of God-like omniscience that Mel Gibson whipped into him a decade ago, and as such his character often…

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Review of If I Stay (2014)

By Richard Scott Larson (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Aug 2014

The film, based on the novel by Gayle Forman, is an almost deliberate confirmation of Alison Bechdel's claim that women in film are so often…

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Review of If I Stay (2014)

By Richard Larson (27) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Aug 2014

The film, based on the novel by Gayle Forman, is an almost deliberate confirmation of Alison Bechdel's claim that women in film are so often…

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Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Aug 2014

Whereas a single, stinging one-liner would have sufficed Jacques Tourneur or Fritz Lang, Frank Miller's overcompensating flood of pulpy dialogue…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Aug 2014

Ira Sachs's push for heartrending poetry makes it clear that the film is putting too fine a gloss on the acute pains of one small tragedy…

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Review of To Be Takei (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Aug 2014

Jennifer M…

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Review of 14 Blades (2010)

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

An immensely gifted physical performer, Donnie Yen isn't strong enough an actor to suggest an authentic inner life to his character beyond…

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Review of I Am Happiness on Earth (2014)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Aug 2014

If the film defies conventional form, it does so without the gravitas that conceptual cohesion brings, quickly rendering its experimentation…

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Review of Metro Manila (2013)

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

Sean Ellis doesn't so much understand Filipino society as merely sees it as grist for standard genre fare, perhaps hoping that the foreign…

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Review of Are You Here (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Aug 2014

The female characters on Mad Men are probably the show's strongest asset, but here they're hollow to the point of insult…

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Review of May in the Summer (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Aug 2014

Cherien Dabis is least successful at connecting her character May's marital crisis to the rumblings of her repressed heritage…

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Review of Cam2Cam (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Aug 2014

Lost in this barely coherent and clichéd hugger-mugger is the initial killer-website conceit and the attending erotic dread, which is retrospectively…

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Review of The Giver (2014)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Aug 2014

The internal crisis of its protagonist amounts to the flicking of an on/off switch rather than the ebb and flow of a consciousness being born…

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Review of Level Five (1997)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Aug 2014

Level Five pictorializes the cruel moment when curiosity encounters tragedy, and the all-too-human abandonment of interest that can follows…

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Review of Ragnarok (2013)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Aug 2014

In the end, any and all potential B-movie fun is extinguished by Ragnarok's depressingly listless anonymity…

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Review of Mr. X (2014)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Aug 2014

For a life beyond mere DVD supplementary material, the film could use a dose of rigor to balance out its steady stream of congratulatory pit stops…

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Review of Coldwater (2013)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Aug 2014

It comes as no surprise that writer-director Vincent Grashaw wrote the first draft of this movie soon after graduating high school…

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Review of Moebius (2013)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Aug 2014

A kind of silent opera in which the actors' precise facial emoting and a muscular editing rhythm create a melodrama by turns horrific and hilarious…

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