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Review of Fanny (1977)

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

The characters, the sets, and the scenes all exist to propagate the notion that pleasure derives from repetition and remediation…

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Review of Fanny (2013)

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

The characters, the sets, and the scenes all exist to propagate the notion that pleasure derives from repetition and remediation…

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Review of Wish I Was Here (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jul 2014

It's hard to see the fiscal woes at the center of Zach Braff's second feature as anything more than a fashionable depiction of first-world problems…

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Review of Persecuted (2014)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 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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Review of I Origins (2014)

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

It treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to solve existential…

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Review of Fanny (1932)

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

The characters, the sets, and the scenes all exist to propagate the notion that pleasure derives from repetition and remediation…

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Review of Mood Indigo (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2014

Michel Gondry bungles his adaptation of the Boris Vian novel by indulging in homespun craftwork at the expense of plot and character detail…

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Review of Video Games: The Movie (2014)

By Justin Clark (7) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2014

Jeremy Snead's doc comes off more as a commercial for a grand, overarching product that isn't finished being developed…

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Review of City Slickers (1991)

By Arthur Ryel-Lindsey (13) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Jul 2014

Equally self-reflective and enjoyable is the score by Marc Shaiman and Thomas Richard Sharp that cuts a sweeping western theme into the waltz…

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Review of Affluenza (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Jul 2014

The film is like an episode of Gossip Girl that's mistaken itself for one of the great satires by Evelyn Waugh…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jul 2014

This is a summer blockbuster contingent on grand bargains, tactical retreats, and a ferocious, inevitable shock-and-awe campaign…

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Review of Rage (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Jul 2014

Paco Cabezas's film is little more than a revenge relic pretending that the ethical treatise of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence never…

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Review of Closed Curtain (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Jul 2014

The next step in Jafar Panahi's personal cinema of captivity, a fully fictionalized, wildly bewildering work which imagines a man at war with…

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Review of A Long Way Down (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Jul 2014

An inept trifle, Pascal Chaumeil's film reduces Nick Hornby's novel of the same name to a series of smug self-help gestures…

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Review of Honour (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Jul 2014

Paddy Considine's benumbed ambiguity at least works against writer-director Shan Khan's reduction of honor killings to grist for the cheapest…

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Review of Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jun 2014

A jump scare isn't just a jump scare in the films of Scott Derrickson, which isn't to say this wannabe master of horror has entirely perfected…

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Review of Tammy (2014)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jun 2014

Ben Falcone's film is an almost plotless doodle, with low stakes made even lower thanks to the bratty passivity of its titular antiheroine…

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Review of America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jun 2014

Beholden to the same plethora of taboos, half-truths, and outright lies traded en masse by mainstream conservatism for the last seven years…

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Review of Me & You (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jun 2014

Not even Bernardo Bertolucci's choice of a lead actor with visible facial acne scars, in a welcome gesture toward authenticity, is enough to…

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Review of Me & You (2012)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jun 2014

Not even Bernardo Bertolucci's choice of a lead actor with visible facial acne scars, in a welcome gesture toward authenticity, is enough to…

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