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Review of Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (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 Of Horses and Men (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2014

On one hand, the film is surely a celebration of a land's distinct creatures and the people who live among them, but on the other, it's a culture's…

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Review of Salvo (2013)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2014

The filmmakers' very particular sense of lighting and framing, though handsome, often exudes a formality that perpetually stifles the story's…

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Review of The Double (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Mar 2014

Whatever the film's interest may be in the marginalized, writer-director Richard Ayoade never alludes to what would even be worth fighting…

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Review of Veronica Mars (2014)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Mar 2014

For all its references to the show's history, the film never panders…

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Review of Dark House (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Mar 2014

The film's dialogue is knowing and the action sequences are elaborate, but not only in ways that advance the shady story toward its hokey denouement…

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Review of The Right Kind of Wrong (2013)

By Tina Hassannia (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Mar 2014

The film is so in love with its unoriginal premise that it can't see the forest for the trees, treating reality like an occasionally relevant…

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Review of Haunted (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Mar 2014

The film's dialogue is knowing and the action sequences are elaborate, but only in ways that advance the shady story toward its hokey denouement…

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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Mar 2014

Even when compared to other films posing as Ford Mustang commercials, Need for Speed isn't particularly memorable for anything other than the…

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Review of Enemy (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Mar 2014

Jake Gyllenhaal embodies the two roles with real presence, establishing Adam's sniveling wimp and Anthony's striding jerk as two believably…

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Review of Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Mar 2014

A sexily chaotic parody of entitlement becomes just another tale of a white dude learning that there are worse things in life than essentially…

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Review of Big Men (2014)

By Alan Jones (357) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Mar 2014

No one corporation or person plans to trample over the wellbeing of the Ghanaian people, but as the story of the development progress, the…

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Review of Bad Words (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Mar 2014

The meager comeuppance and hasty notes of sweetness that end the film feel pre-approved rather than organically realized…

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Review of The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2014)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Mar 2014

One can never fully shake the feeling that the sense of unease the filmmakers rouse, every act of seduction, infiltration, and vengeance they…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Mar 2014

Noam Murro gives the film nothing so much as a hit-refresh on the same glistening, impossibly golden and gray flecks of pixel-barf that have…

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Review of Particle Fever (2013)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Mar 2014

The film may not put itself above the uninitiated, but director Mark Levinson oftentimes appears almost too eager to present his material with…

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Review of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Mar 2014

The film spent roughly a dozen years in development, and the moronic, corporate detritus from that long time warp is strewn about like so many…

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Review of Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Mar 2014

With Travis Mathews's help, James Franco's persona forms a kind of symmetry: 1980's dubious homophobia against 2013's risible homophilia…

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Review of The Face of Love (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Mar 2014

An almost offensively tasteful dud that remains irritatingly on the surface, more alive to the set design than the characters' motivations…

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Review of Grand Piano (2013)

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

Eugenio Mira thrills in watching his main character attempt to worm his way out of a most unusual hostage situation, synching his indulgences…

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