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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Feb 2014

As always, Wes Anderson places his trademark precision in direct confrontation with the chaos and confusion menacing his beloved characters…

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Review of Journey to the West (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Feb 2014

Stephen Chow's distinctive vision is evident in the seemingly boundless imagination of his scenarios, and in the film's sincere spiritual concerns…

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Review of Son of God (2014)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Feb 2014

The film plays for much of its length like a terrible sketch comedy with one-dimensional caricatures shuffling listlessly through a succession…

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Review of Non-Stop (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Feb 2014

The latest collaboration between director Jaume Collet-Serra and star Liam Neeson is made with far more care and visual detail than you might expect…

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Review of The Lunchbox (2013)

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

The patience in mercurially presenting the characters' backstories and desires is matched by the film's genuine curiosity about the healing…

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Review of Non-Stop (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Feb 2014

The latest collaboration between director Jaume Collet-Serra and star Liam Neeson is made with far more care and visual detail than you might expect…

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Review of The Bag Man (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Feb 2014

The premise might make sense, if only hypocritically, but the film abandons this already flimsy parody of macho pride disastrously at the last minute…

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Review of I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Feb 2014

Everything in I Wanna Hold Your Hand is pushed right up to the breaking point of absurdity…

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Review of 3 Days to Kill (2014)

By Alan Jones (357) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Feb 2014

McG may strip down his approach and serve up a variety of slick, well-paced shoot-outs and car chases, but his technical skill can't quite…

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Review of Pompeii (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Feb 2014

Shockingly, the violent release of smoke, fire, and meteoric debris is positioned more as a climactic afterthought than as the main attraction…

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Review of In Secret (2014)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Feb 2014

A broad, crude mutilation of Emile Zola's noirish romance Thérèse Raquin that prioritizes heavy petting over plot…

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Review of Black Out (2014)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Feb 2014

The film's various references to other stylistic touchstones, while thematically apt, rarely carry any sort of critical inquiry…

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Review of About Last Night (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Feb 2014

Kevin Hart turns an essentially crude wingman into the conscience of the film's torturous, nettled discourse on romance…

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Review of Winter's Tale (2014)

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

Fantasy is heavily dependent on vision, which Mark Helprin had in spades, but the look of Akiva Goldsman's fantasy is limp, timid, and occasionally…

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Review of Endless Love (1981)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Feb 2014

Shana Feste's film seems blissfully unaware that great fights require truly substantial conflicts…

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Review of Lucky Bastard (2014)

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

In the end, considering the numerous ways the film goes limp, it seems credibility still eludes the found-footage genre…

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Review of Endless Love (2014)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Feb 2014

Shana Feste's film seems blissfully unaware that great fights require truly substantial conflicts…

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Review of The New Black (2013)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Feb 2014

It does little to break free of the conventional talking-head documentary format, but thoughtful in how it prizes dialogue over acrimony and…

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Review of RoboCop (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Feb 2014

Ultimately the film is, like the Faux News programming it caricatures at face value, a deck-stacking simulation of a dialogue it isn't even…

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Review of Adult World (2014)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Feb 2014

The title of Scott Coffey's new film is a pretty obvious double entendre, but it does efficiently convey the good intentions behind this scattershot…

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