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Review of The Raid 2 (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Mar 2014

It's all showy viscera, no ballet, and wan attempts at the gravity of something like Drug War, with implicit statements made about the deadening…

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Review of A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Mar 2014

The film exhibits strong character interplay and resides in an unconventional milieu, in effect turning rote material into something that feels…

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Review of Brothers Hypnotic (2014)

By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Mar 2014

There are grudges held amid all the good will, an intention of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble to do things on their terms, and those terms stem…

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Review of Obvious Child (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Mar 2014

Whatever your foreknowledge of low-budget Brooklyn dramedies, it's impossible that Gillian Robespierre's film won't lob you at least a few curveballs…

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Review of Obvious Child (2009)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Mar 2014

Whatever your foreknowledge of low-budget Brooklyn dramedies, it's impossible that Gillian Robespierre's film won't lob you at least a few curveballs…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Mar 2014

Its horrors go beyond any single raggedy phantom, reaching back to the primordial fear of death and loss: of a child, of a loved one, of one's…

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Review of Blood Ties (2014)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Mar 2014

What Lumet or Cassavetes often showed with a look, an image, a movement, Canet chooses to tell, and often at length, with the most heavy-handed…

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Review of Blood Ties (2013)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Mar 2014

What Lumet or Cassavetes often showed with a look, an image, a movement, Canet chooses to tell, and often at length, with the most heavy-handed…

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Review of Rob the Mob (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Mar 2014

For the most part, it's a gas, but the light touch Raymond De Felitta gives the material is at once its saving grace and its tremendous limiter…

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Review of Blood Ties (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Mar 2014

The film exhibits strong character interplay and resides in an unconventional milieu, in effect turning rote material into something that feels…

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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Mar 2014

Freed from the burden of starting anew, the film restores the Muppets' rightful place as stars of their own show…

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Review of She's Lost Control (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Mar 2014

Anja Marquardt feels the need to puff up her film with relatively artificial conflict that generally comes off as sops to screenwriting conventions…

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Review of Salvation Army (2013)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Mar 2014

It's a quiet thud of a film, which embraces, with grace and precision, the nastiness of growing up with desire stuck in one's throat like a…

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Review of Dear White People (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Mar 2014

Like the movie itself, every character is a beautiful swirl of contradictions…

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Review of Trap Street (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Mar 2014

Vivian Qu's debut feature slowly reveals itself to be an eerie meditation on the increasingly thin line between technological illusion and…

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Review of Sheep (2013)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Mar 2014

Contextual scenes are excised through the frequent use of elliptical fade-outs, which, in a nod to the ocean setting, suggest the ebb and flow…

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Review of Buzzard (2015)

By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Mar 2014

This is a study of a man who's hard to like, harder to dismiss, and impossible to pigeonhole…

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Review of Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)

By Ela Bittencourt (29) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Mar 2014

But whereas female sexuality was borderline vampiric in Antichrist, this time we're in more ambiguous, contextually richer terrain, where desire…

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Review of The French Minister (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Mar 2014

With its broad performances, rapid-fire pacing, and rampant visual and verbal gags, Bernard Tavernier's first out-and-out comedy doesn't try…

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Review of Divergent (2014)

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

The film transcends the déjà vu of its borrowed trappings but ironically sacrifices all momentum in favor of a long series of physical tests…

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