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Review of Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Dec 2013

The strain to make the film both an educational tool and a child-minded entertainment is noticeable throughout…

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Review of Tim's Vermeer (2013)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Dec 2013

It chronicles the quest of a self-described geek, and there are pleasurable frissons of discovery in the detective work…

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Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Dec 2013

What works about the film can largely be attributed to the original text, which is full of cruel twists and savage blows that Tracy Letts wisely…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Dec 2013

The film's half-hearted plea for responsibility and ethics in the news, after joyfully rolling around in its corruption for the majority of…

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Review of The Past (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Dec 2013

Farhadi navigates his complicated narrative thicket with an apparent ease that confirms yet again that he's an amazing talent, but here he…

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Review of Paradise: Hope (2013)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Dec 2013

The third and final film in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy navigates a narrow space between tenderness and cruelty…

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Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Dec 2013

Martin Scorsese's keyed-up, irreverent tone frequently fails to distinguish itself from the grunting arias sung by the oily paragons of commerce…

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Review of The Selfish Giant (2013)

By Oscar Moralde (3) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Dec 2013

The ear for language is paired with an eye for the landscape, and the film finds beauty even in such a seemingly dreary, economically depressed…

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Review of Liv & Ingmar (2012)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Dec 2013

The documentary not only humanizes Ingmar Bergman as the absent lover-cum-father of everyday life, but works as a priceless oral history of cinema…

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Review of Some Velvet Morning (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Dec 2013

To watch the film is to wonder once again why Neil LaBute was ever taken seriously as a so-called dramatist of the gulf between the sexes…

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Review of Lone Survivor (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Dec 2013

Like his prior The Kingdom, Peter Berg's film pretends to dabble in a frothy moral ambiguity, swiftly betraying its true aims with trigger-happy…

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Review of The Unbelievers (2013)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Dec 2013

It ably captures the provocative open forums that Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss conduct, but its uneven nature occasionally dulls the…

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Review of The Crash Reel (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Dec 2013

It compellingly captures a family wrestling mightily with the riddles and contradictions of a culture that promotes achievement at all costs…

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Review of Trap for Cinderella (2013)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Dec 2013

Ian Softley is far too interested in the minutia of the plot to bother with the Chabrolian elements of bourgeois excess or the Hitchcockian…

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Review of Hours (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Dec 2013

The film's fealty to history is both unnecessary and a hindrance, pulling us out of a story that could have easily been set in an anonymous…

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Review of The Last Days on Mars (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Dec 2013

The film's visual construction is spare, drawing power from its locations and quietly matted miniatures, though ultimately it succumbs to powering…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Dec 2013

A once-precious franchise's weakest installment, which forgets these adventures' magic was never conjured by bells and whistles…

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Review of Twice Born (2012)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Dec 2013

Sergio Castellitto's film quickly turns out to be more interested in reveling in the secrets of its storyline than in its sentiments…

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Review of Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Dec 2013

A tale of memory and redemption that does little to linger in the mind and even less to decry P.L…

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Review of Night Train to Lisbon (2013)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Dec 2013

Bille August's film is a protracted, soporific trip into Portuguese history that would like to be a romantic thriller…

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