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Review of The M Word (2014)

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

Like a number of cult directors to emerge in the 1970s, Henry Jaglom values a party atmosphere at the expense of narrative cohesion…

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Review of Decoding Annie Parker (2014)

By Jordan Osterer (6) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Apr 2014

This isn't a film of bedside conversions or radical emotional transformations, nor is it a story about laughing at one's own hardships as a…

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Review of Human Capital (2013)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Apr 2014

Paolo Virzì's Human Capital gives the tired trope of cutting between overlapping stories a welcome shot of adrenaline, using it not just to…

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Review of Dior and I (2015)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Apr 2014

Bolstered by deft editing that keeps the proceedings moving at a light, graceful clip, this behind-the-runway look at one of fashion's legendary…

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Review of Glass Chin (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Apr 2014

The story wisely focuses on the cast's worn-in and jazzy repartee and expresses a perfectly modulated sense of self-awareness…

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Review of Brick Mansions (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Apr 2014

Only the very charitable would characterize this strain of providence as anything other than dumb, or at least incredibly forgetful…

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Review of The Quiet Ones (2014)

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

If the stock concessions made to genre cliché by The Woman in Black can be charitably viewed as deliberate tips of the hat to the heyday of…

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Review of Palo Alto (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Apr 2014

It presents little that wasn't already done better in Myth of the American Sleepover, an equally evocative tale of longing that was far more…

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Review of The Other Woman (2014)

By Jordan Osterer (6) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2014

The film is clearly wary of either being too saccharine or taking itself--or the notion of compulsive infidelity--too seriously, though its…

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Review of Chef (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2014

Jon Favreau's film comes off as flippant in its view of independent labor as a universally liberating experience for an artist and businessman…

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Review of Match (2014)

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

Patrick Stewart's performance is practically an argument for Belber to jettison everything else and take the actor on the road as a one-man…

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Review of Zero Motivation (2014)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2014

Zero Motivation is refreshingly casual in the depiction of its female-centric environment, but the freshness of its performances is often compromised…

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Review of Night Moves (1975)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Apr 2014

Like Michael Cera's two recent films with Sebastian Silva, Night Moves reveals the dark core contained within an actor's nice-guy neuroticism…

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Review of Night Moves (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Apr 2014

Like Michael Cera's two recent films with Sebastian Silva, Night Moves reveals the dark core contained within an actor's nice-guy neuroticism…

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Review of The German Doctor (2013)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Apr 2014

In Lucía Puenzo's film, things always feel off balance even as the plot points click all too neatly into place…

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Review of Venus in Fur (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Apr 2014

After years of respectable filmmaking, it's refreshing to witness a reinvigorated Roman Polanski willing to once again delve deep into seedy…

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Review of Land Ho! (2014)

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

That the filmmakers consistently catch the nuances of character that bind the two men to each other, rather than simply tracing the pros and…

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Review of Young & Beautiful (2013)

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

The film's increasingly unnerving story mostly unfolds with minimal flair, intensely focused as it is on its steely and enigmatic protagonist…

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Review of Blue Ruin (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Apr 2014

By reducing its principals to stock figures in an extended chess game, it ends up providing steady, neatly staged thrills, but little else…

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Review of Locke (2014)

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

The literalizing of Ivan Locke's hidden self and his inability to master it ultimately exposes the film as the squarest kind of theater: drama…

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