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Review of The Nut Job (2014)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Jan 2014

There's no personality in the design or the script, which only renders the cynical aftertaste of this convoluted one-squirrel-against the-world…

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Review of Maidentrip (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jan 2014

A coming-of-age journey of self-realization, made immensely more involving by virtue of being seen through its subject's first-person perspective…

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Review of Jamesy Boy (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jan 2014

The movie adds up to little more than an interminable bildungsroman, sunk early and often by the desperately miscast Spencer Lofranco…

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Review of Reasonable Doubt (2014)

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

You may feel as if you're watching two or three abbreviated episodes of Law & Order in quick succession rather than a fully realized movie…

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Review of The Legend of Hercules (2014)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Jan 2014

Given its virtuous subject matter and the relative bloodlessness of its violence, perhaps Renny Harlin means for this film to be a means of…

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Review of The Rocket (2013)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Jan 2014

The particulars of Laos's historical conflicts are sometimes only obliquely confronted, but the torrid past of covered-up wars palpably echoes…

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Review of The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jan 2014

What's missing, in the end, is any provocative or poignant insights into the truth about Emanuel; all we get are vague hints…

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Review of Free Ride (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jan 2014

Shana Betz's too-insistent refusal to commit to the melodramatic or to the suspenseful only makes the film seem like empty dramatization…

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Review of Curse of Chucky (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Jan 2014

The film gradually reveals a lot of unsavory motives, which ultimately deflate the buoyant virtues on which the film had blithely coasted…

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Review of The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Jan 2014

The film gradually reveals a lot of unsavory motives, which ultimately deflate the buoyant virtues on which the film had blithely coasted…

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Review of G.B.F. (2014)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Jan 2014

The film, lensed in appealing candy-striped colors, has so much fun exploding stereotypes and radiates with such infectious comic gusto and…

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Review of Cold Comes the Night (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Jan 2014

Tze Chun's film exudes no flair in rehashing the violence and suspense of its predictable noir-thriller material…

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Review of In Bloom (2013)

By Oscar Moralde (3) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Jan 2014

The foreclosure of possibilities provided by the use of the long take assists in the indictment of chauvinism and patriarchal brutality that…

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Review of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Jan 2014

Several reels' worth of ugly, unshaped footage that wouldn't have been deemed fit for a movie's end-credit outtakes not so long ago…

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Review of Open Grave (2013)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Dec 2013

Individual moments linger, but Gonzalo López-Gallego's film is merely a rough draft of a thriller…

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Review of The Best Offer (2013)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Dec 2013

It ascribes to the falsehood that a rarefied milieu inherently infuses a film with intelligence, as if inept execution can be covered up by…

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Review of Labor Day (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Dec 2013

A better film would have had the gumption to maintain the poetic bleakness, rather than steer toward what ultimately feels like safe compromise…

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Review of 47 Ronin (1994)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Dec 2013

This botched vision accepts the warrior's nobility at face value and sees the story merely as a springboard for high-flying action and CGI…

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Review of 47 Ronin (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Dec 2013

This botched vision accepts the warrior's nobility at face value and sees the story merely as a springboard for high-flying action and CGI…

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Review of Grudge Match (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Dec 2013

It will come as a surprise to none that Grudge Match is so wantonly clichéd that to watch it is to explore the outer perimeters of one's own…

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