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Review of The Canal (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Apr 2014

Unlike David Lynch, Ivan Kavanagh isn't interested in catching ideas like fish, of linking the degradation of film to the degradation of…

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Review of Life Partners (2014)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Apr 2014

The romantic elements are secondary to what is essentially an astute and cleverly written dissection of a co-dependent friendship being gradually…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

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

If you programmed an algorithm to figure out how The Lawnmower Man might be retold by Snake Plissken at the conclusion of Escape from L.A.,…

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Review of That Demon Within (2014)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Apr 2014

It rarely feels like anything more than an effort to pander to the kind of audiences that enjoy Quentin Tarantino's films for all the wrong reasons…

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Review of Güeros (2014)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Apr 2014

A good story, full of life and related with intelligence and a sense of humor…

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Review of A Promise (2013)

By Jordan Osterer (6) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Apr 2014

Patrice Leconte struggles to find a coherent rhythm, a problem exacerbated by a hurried running time that compresses some of the novella's…

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Review of Heaven Is for Real (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Apr 2014

Heaven Is for Real is by Christians, for Christians, and deliberately, if subtly, antagonistic toward everyone else…

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Review of The Final Member (2012)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Apr 2014

A potential barroom joke blossoms into a surprisingly poignant portrait of three aging men wrestling with how to shed their mortal coil…

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Review of Authors Anonymous (2014)

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

It takes the easiest approach to every scene, haphazardly juggling different tones without integrating them into a cohesive and consistent…

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Review of Proxy (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Apr 2014

It transforms itself from a meek lo-fi indie stalker thriller in the key of May to a hysterically sexist and homophobic revenge film…

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Review of 13 Sins (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Apr 2014

Daniel Stamm's film is solidly helmed, if expectedly over-reliant on unnecessarily grisly comeuppances that leave nothing to the imagination…

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Review of Kid Cannabis (2014)

By Jordan Osterer (6) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Apr 2014

The film works best when it shows Jonathan Daniel Brown's drug kingpin at his most inept and incapable, rather than elevating him to a pothead martyr…

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Review of Manakamana (2013)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Apr 2014

Filmmakers Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez insist that altered spectatorship, particularly patience and duration, is the foundation of cinematic…

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Review of Draft Day (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Apr 2014

The cruelly obvious third act congeals the film as a wet-eyed monument to the Kevin Costner character's particular brand of American manliness,…

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Review of Rio 2 (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Apr 2014

The net effect is a shapeless would-be diversion in which things just happen independently, a string of effects missing any cause…

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Review of Hank and Asha (2013)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Apr 2014

As the film is focused solely through the lens of the titular characters' cameras, this limits the exploration of the story's worldview outside…

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Review of Cuban Fury (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Apr 2014

The film is thin on concept and limited in style, but the filmmakers have the good sense to let their characters remain playful and goofy throughout…

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Review of Cuban Fury (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Apr 2014

The film is thin on concept and limited in style, but the filmmakers have the good sense to let their characters remain playful and goofy throughout…

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Review of Hateship Loveship (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Apr 2014

It ultimately offers little more than another opportunity for famous actors to indulge their fetishistic, inadvertently condescending impressions…

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Review of Joe (2014)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Apr 2014

Director David Gordon Green finds a balance between symbolism and realism in his storytelling that allows the film to be many things at once…

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