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Review of The Signal (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 May 2014

The titular signal refers to the Nomad hacker's taunts, though it may as well point to the film's nature as a self-styled calling card…

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Review of Elena (2014)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 May 2014

This is a film about the invisible things passed down from generation to generation, that nasty inheritance that cages us into patterns and…

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Review of Filth (2013)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 May 2014

Ultimately, the film is too nihilistic to believe its protagonist can be saved, declaring him a lost soul and satisfied to let him suffer…

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Review of The Hornet's Nest (2014)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 May 2014

It becomes clear pretty quickly that Mike and Carlos Boettcher's insider perspective allows for close to no context beyond what their cameras…

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Review of Korengal (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 May 2014

The result is an alternately gripping and dully meandering patchwork of these soldiers' stay in the Korengal that pointedly shuns big-picture…

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Review of Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 May 2014

Greatly cognizant of the revenge genre's penchant for hypocritical demagoguery, director Arnaud des Pallières unsettles the audience's usual…

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Review of Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 May 2014

It'd be easy to write off Paramount's Tupac: Resurrection as a cheap publicity stunt…

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Review of The Grand Seduction (2014)

By Alan Jones (357) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 May 2014

Like many films that contrast the simplicity of a rural community against the confusion of city life, The Grand Seduction exhibits a patriarchal,…

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Review of The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 May 2014

Robin Williams once again proves he can insufferably crank the energy to 11 without batting an eye, only this time his frenzied comic demeanor…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 May 2014

It only conveys the awesome strangeness of its characters and their universe when director Brian Singer breaks away from the perpetual build-up…

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Review of Blended (2014)

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

The filmmakers only bother to lay out comedic set pieces that are simply family-friendly big-budget variations on Jackass stunts…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 May 2014

An old-fashioned social-problem film where the problem magically evaporates…

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Review of Winter Sleep (2014)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 May 2014

The obvious analogue here would be Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage; the key difference lies in Winter Sleep's absolute refusal to let anything…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 May 2014

As a consequence of Bennett Miller's relentless de-dramatization, Foxcatcher offers us next to nothing of utility or complexity about du Pont's…

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Review of The Dance of Reality (2013)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 May 2014

Alejandro Jodorowsky never manages to transcend the sense that he's indulging himself and participating in a hollow introspection unworthy…

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Review of The Homesman (2014)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 May 2014

If what they have to say on the subject is as remotely superficial as The Homesman, maybe the less said, the better…

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Review of Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 May 2014

We're simply presented a person in trouble, and we're allowed to recognize his problems as extreme embodiments of universal issues of terror,…

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Review of Words and Pictures (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 May 2014

At least the irony with which this transparently written and dispassionately aestheticized film so demagogically argues for the value of words…

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Review of Cold in July (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 May 2014

While Jim Mickle's compositions lose much of their verve in the film's later half, his regard for the analog does not--and at the expense of…

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Review of The Captive (2014)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 May 2014

For every way that The Sweet Hereafter makes its generic elements seem fresh and even a trifle mysterious, The Captive finds new ways to render…

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