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Review of Child of God (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Jul 2014

James Franco's general aesthetic is ugly and ambling, not so much because of its brownish-gray monochrome, but because it registers like the…

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Review of Happy Christmas (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Jul 2014

Joe Swanberg's films have grown into a reliable relief from the competitive, dehumanizing freneticism of much of American culture, marked by…

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Review of The Killer Inside Me (2010)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Jul 2014

The result isn't drama so much as a waking nightmare of play-acting and predestined doom…

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Review of Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Jul 2014

This is less a movie than a dutiful renewal of a recognizable title's licensing rights…

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Review of Behaving Badly (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Jul 2014

Falls back on the trappings of the film's innumerable teenage gross-out forefathers with tiresome vulgarity and rote misunderstandings in place…

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Review of Hercules (2014)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jul 2014

The film fluctuates haphazardly between semi-serious reverence and tongue-in-cheek camp, with no shortage of opportunities for the inevitable…

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Review of Abuse of Weakness (2013)

By Ela Bittencourt (29) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jul 2014

Breillat's scripting of Maud as fatally distant from her family, willfully independent, but more believably abandoned, is haunting…

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Review of Lucy (2014)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jul 2014

Vulgar auteurist Luc Besson finally commits wholeheartedly to his decades-long preoccupation with waifish young women discovering their inner…

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Review of Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Jul 2014

A film of obvious characterizations and even more obvious plot machinations that render its moment-to-moment charms moot…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Jul 2014

Anton Corbijn constructs a stifling world of shadowy surveillance and intersecting national interests, building on John Le Carré's sense of…

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Review of And So It Goes (2014)

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

Just as Michael Douglas doesn't have it in his guts to make Oren a real son of a bitch (a grandpa Gekko), Diane Keaton's jangled neurotic tics…

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Review of Beneath (2013)

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

The film is impersonal and populated with wisps of characters who spend most of the running time wandering around in the dark yelling at one another…

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Review of Beneath (2014)

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

The film is impersonal and populated with wisps of characters who spend most of the running time wandering around in the dark yelling at one another…

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Review of Very Good Girls (2013)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Jul 2014

Most disheartening is how the female leads aren't given ample space to develop as dynamic characters beyond the most urgent confines of the…

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Review of Cannibal (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Jul 2014

It keeps us at a remove that becomes telling of the filmmaker's reticence to explore whatever feelings of isolation and yearning may inform…

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Review of Alive Inside (2014)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Jul 2014

The doc is heartwarming, but it doesn't delve deeply into the backstories that inform the ailing patients' connection to the music that stirs…

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Review of Sex Tape (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Jul 2014

By the time a blackmailing plot is introduced, the film seems to be surviving solely on the fumes of curse words and frequent shots of Jason…

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Review of Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Jul 2014

It's not even made clear whether the machines can feel pain…

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Review of The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Jul 2014

DeMonaco may doubly, sometimes triply, underline the story's governing theme of social power and how it's exchanged, but the rage and lucidity…

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Review of Persecuted (2014)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Jul 2014

There's no attempt to convince us that the world is being corrupted by people who haven't accepted the Gospel; it merely assumes we agree with…

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