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Review of Oculus (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Apr 2014

Through a mini-triumph of montage, what begins as run-of-the-mill backstory vomit is thrillingly repackaged as an almost-Lynchian duet between…

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Review of Oculus (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Apr 2014

Through a mini-triumph of montage, what begins as run-of-the-mill backstory vomit is thrillingly repackaged as an almost-Lynchian duet between…

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Review of Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Apr 2014

What results is a lopsided, put-upon narrative of survival where humans, and not the animals themselves, are the ones to be celebrated…

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Review of In the Blood (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Apr 2014

Aside from being another rote addition to the revenge-film canon, John Stockwell's In The Blood is also a supreme waste of Gina Carano's talent…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Apr 2014

Despite one or two moments of Venture Brothers-worthy fancy, the film is as by-the-numbers as any this series has ever offered…

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Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Mar 2014

The material and resources are certainly substantial, but the filmmakers clumsily weave separate stories together without detailing anything…

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Review of Goodbye World (2013)

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

The tetchy band of thirtysomethings' interpersonal problems are infinitely less compelling than the mysterious and original global disaster…

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Review of Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Mar 2014

The sex in Nymphomaniac is inhuman, mechanical, boring, and predictably viewed through the (male) scrim of someone who characterizes women…

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Review of The Retrieval (2013)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Mar 2014

Less old-fashioned than demure and passé, evoking the visual style and rhythms of a 1990s made-for-TV movie rather than a daring, revisionist…

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Review of Alien Abduction (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Mar 2014

A few jolting scares are deployed throughout, but more difficult to shake is how the story's overacting lambs walk a rather programmatic path…

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Review of Under the Skin (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Mar 2014

Throughout, what truly matters to director Jonathan Glazer is articulating through visual and aural enticement the unconscious power of our…

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Review of The Retrieval (2014)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Mar 2014

Less old-fashioned than demure and passé, evoking the visual style and rhythms of a 1990s made-for-TV movie rather than a daring, revisionist…

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Review of Noah (2013)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Mar 2014

Once the money shots of Darren Aronofsky's version recede, it becomes ever more clear that his intention is to tackle the capriciousness of…

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Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Mar 2014

There's no sense of visual artifice to match the ludicrous pitch of the script, and subsequently, the film comes off as awkward and uncertain…

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Review of Noah (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Mar 2014

Once the money shots of Darren Aronofsky's version recede, it becomes ever more clear that his intention is to tackle the capriciousness of…

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Review of Sabotage (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Mar 2014

There's no sense of visual artifice to match the ludicrous pitch of the script, and subsequently, the film comes off as awkward and uncertain…

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Review of Finding Vivian Maier (2014)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Mar 2014

This is less a portrait of an artist as a young woman than a psychological evaluation of a slippery subject…

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Review of Cesar Chavez (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Mar 2014

Not unlike Michael Peña's prior supporting roles, Chavez is marked by an explosive anger kept under a cherubic, sweet-natured mask, providing…

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Review of Refuge (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Mar 2014

The problem with the film isn't the contrivance of its premise, it's that writer-director Jessica Goldberg doesn't know it's contrived…

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Review of Hide Your Smiling Faces (2014)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Mar 2014

Daniel Patrick Carbone's pensive style, so dotted with ethnographic detail, is interested in revealing a world in flux, but his fixation on…

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