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Review of Lullaby (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Jun 2014

Garrett Hedlund's performance throbs with an anguish that's far more honest than the sentimental euthanasia subplot at the center of the film…

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Review of Ivory Tower (2014)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Jun 2014

The documentary is more interested in covering all its bases than making sure it fully has its foot on each base…

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Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Jun 2014

It has the core of a genuine crowd-pleaser, but unfortunately something bigger and more all-consuming keeps getting into its head…

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Review of Test (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Jun 2014

Adept as both timely character study and epochal drama, Test wonderfully manages fully formed humanism without sentimentality…

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Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jun 2014

As funny and batshit insane as the movie often is, the fact that 22 Jump Street knows it's a tiresome sequel doesn't save it from being a tiresome…

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Review of Hellion (2014)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jun 2014

Both film and protagonist are troubled works in progress that shuffle and meander and frequently falter, but occasionally sing…

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Review of Test (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jun 2014

Adept as both timely character study and epochal drama, Test wonderfully manages fully formed humanism without sentimentality…

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Review of Witching & Bitching (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Jun 2014

Álex de la Iglesia has a real flair for wild action sequences that remain exhilaratingly coherent and sensical…

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Review of A Coffee in Berlin (2012)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Jun 2014

Jan Ole Gerster seems infatuated with his main character, but to little avail beyond reveling in his aimless despair…

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Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Jun 2014

Tom Cruise's participation transmutes, as it always does, everything around him, turning the movie's series of false starts, dead ends, and…

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Review of Harry and the Hendersons (1987)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Jun 2014

Unabashedly lefty sentiment colors the whole film…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

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

It takes few chances, frequently using sass as a smokescreen, hiding what's unoriginal and cheaply sentimental about this story behind a veil…

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Review of Trust Me (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Jun 2014

Almost none of the film's characters or scenarios escape feeling contrived under writer-director-star Clark Gregg's bizarro tonal shifts and…

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Review of Trust Me (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Jun 2014

Almost none of the film's characters or scenarios escape feeling contrived under writer-director-star Clark Gregg's bizarro tonal shifts and…

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Review of Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Jun 2014

The art is the reason to see the enjoyable but egregiously slight Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr…

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Review of Ping Pong Summer (2014)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Jun 2014

A heartfelt retro flashback littered with pop-culture iconography and much slang, it focuses on the importance of friendship and loyalty rather…

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Review of Borgman (2013)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Jun 2014

An art-house con destined to make viewers who've ever used the term mindfuck as praise rack their brains trying to come up with alternate readings…

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Review of The Sacrament (2014)

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

With The Sacrament, director Ti West has bitten off more of a premise than his classically modest barebones approach to horror movies can presently…

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Review of Maleficent (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 May 2014

We may have all wanted to know the story behind those famed horns, but the mystery was far preferable to having Maleficent de-fanged and de-clawed…

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Review of A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

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

All the whiny point-scoring is such an explicit appeal for audience sympathy that the dialogue feels derived from a malnourished stand-up routine…

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