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Review of Frank (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Aug 2014

The film boldly raises the unanswerable question of whether it's better for an artist to safely isolate his work or tweak it a bit so as to…

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Review of Dinosaur 13 (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Aug 2014

To some extent, the use of a wide aspect ratio and the doc's emphatic score takes its cues from paleontologist Pete Larson's passion…

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Review of The Expendables 3 (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Aug 2014

For all the brawn on display, the film never slows down to take in the thrill and talent of hand-to-hand combat…

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Review of The Trip to Italy (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Aug 2014

Michael Winterbottom and his gifted actors still haven't quite solved the riddle of portraying social disconnection in a manner that's anything…

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Review of Life After Beth (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Aug 2014

Jeff Baena's film, at heart, is just another overly familiar story of a boy struggling to get over his first love and who's rewarded for his…

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Review of Into the Storm (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2014

There are many instances of questionable logic in Into the Storm, but the most persistent is the film's unexplained assumption that tornado-hunting…

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Review of The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2014

The film is rife with tired food metaphors and plot twists so predictable you see them coming like travelers on the poplar-lined street that…

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Review of Web Junkie (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 2014

Without a frame of footage nor a single interview presented from outside the camp, the documentary shows a capitalist nightmare that accords…

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Review of What Now? Remind Me (2014)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Aug 2014

The repetitive rhythms of Joaquim Pinto's daily routines provide the film with a feeling of serenity that stands in contrast to the man's underlying…

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Review of About Alex (2014)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Aug 2014

However self-aware the film may be, its characters and moods and conflicts are too over-determined and familiar to linger in the memory very…

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Review of Fifi Howls from Happiness (2013)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Aug 2014

Mitra Farahani rescues the doc from becoming a talking-head fest by embracing her creative self as a character and exposing the travails of…

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Review of After (2014)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Aug 2014

Throughout After, the filmmakers crank the trials of the film's Valentino family up to 11, sans irony or subversion…

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Review of What If (2013)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Aug 2014

Right up to its simplistic ending, the film is pleased to regurgitate the contrived tropes of the genre without ever honestly addressing the…

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Review of The Maid's Room (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Aug 2014

Drina is less of an individual, and one whom we wish to see avenged, than a transparent martyr for the collective sins of the wealthy few…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Jul 2014

For every scene that soars into the dizzying heights of the pop sublime, there's another that crashes back down into the mundane troughs of…

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Review of Get On Up (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jul 2014

As if taking a cue from its own title, the movie emphatically sets its sights on the upward trajectory of Brown's career…

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Review of Rich Hill (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jul 2014

Rich Hill is poverty porn, examining lower-class spaces with pity as its operative mode and engendering little more than a means for viewers…

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Review of Calvary (2014)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jul 2014

One may feel dissatisfied by the 11th-hour turn toward lyrical fatalism, and mildly insulted by the presumptuous attitude it seems to choose…

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Review of War Story (2014)

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

Mark Jackson's direction strips much of the agency from any character's grasp by insisting that their dilemmas can only be revealed with stone-faced…

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Review of Finding Fela (2014)

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

Alex Gibney uses archival and Broadway footage so seamlessly that telling the difference between reality and recreation becomes not only difficult,…

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