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Review of American Hustle (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Dec 2013

Formally ostentatious and unrepentantly messy, the film manages to implicitly convey the overdriven, coked-up confusion that many '70s period…

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Review of Out of the Furnace (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Dec 2013

What this movie finally boils down to is a deceptively simple tale of two brothers, and of being one's brother's keeper, and of seeking justice…

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Review of Merry Christmas? (2013)

By Abbey Bender (99) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Dec 2013

The conceit has the potential to be amusing, but the role-playing is never as funny or immersive as it could be, and the characters' repartee…

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Review of Merry Christmas (2013)

By Abbey Bender (99) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Dec 2013

The conceit has the potential to be amusing, but the role-playing is never as funny or immersive as it could be, and the characters' repartee…

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Review of White Reindeer (2013)

By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Dec 2013

What's dark and weird about Zach Clark's film is also what's tangible, authentic, and wise about it…

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Review of Swerve (2012)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Dec 2013

A confident and exciting genre film, and that's certainly not nothing, but it has a slight impersonality that marks it as either a calling…

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Review of They Live (1988)

By Calum Marsh (242) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Dec 2013

Behold the message as articulated by John Carpenter's sublime sci-fi opus: I'm giving you a choice: Either put on these glasses, or start eating…

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Review of Crave (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Dec 2013

The film's method of admitting its own hypocrisy so as to enable it to further indulge said hypocrisy grows more grating than if it were merely…

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Review of The Punk Singer (2013)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Nov 2013

Sini Anderson's film may be another unimaginative fan letter, but at least Kathleen Hannah is worthy of such devotion…

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Review of Oldboy (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Nov 2013

Spike Lee's version loses the one thing that really worked in the original, the sense of moral complication emerging out of the intertwined…

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Review of Black Nativity (2013)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Nov 2013

For anyone who prefers their assertive homilies to crust over like a syrupy sweet, this loose adaptation of Langston Hughes's beloved holiday…

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Review of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Nov 2013

A cursory history lesson with no interest in probing the deeper or more complex implications of Mandela's positions and their relationship…

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Review of Homefront (2013)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Nov 2013

The material plays out like a particularly busy episode of Sons of Anarchy, possessing a peculiar joylessness that's anathema to the success…

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Review of Weekend of a Champion (2013)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Nov 2013

The film is at its most fascinating when Jackie Stewart authoritatively and pedagogically discusses the nuances of his trade…

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Review of Bettie Page Reveals All (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Nov 2013

Mark Mori goes a bit overboard in hammering home his appreciation of Bettie Page's significance, allowing the film to occasionally lapse into…

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Review of Lenny Cooke (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Nov 2013

While it verges on exploitation of the gentle giant at its core, it's also an effective bit of human drama, competently, and sometimes movingly,…

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Review of Cold Turkey (2013)

By Veronika Ferdman (5) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Nov 2013

While featuring much screaming, accusations, collision of agendas, and the exhuming of dirty secrets, the film remains emotionally tone deaf…

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Review of Cold Turkey (2013)

By Veronika Ferdman (5) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Nov 2013

While featuring much screaming, accusations, collision of agendas, and the exhuming of dirty secrets, the film remains emotionally tone deaf…

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Review of Delivery Man (2013)

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

The breadth of Vince Vaughn's gregarious persona has never been given free reign by any director and this certainly isn't the game-changer…

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Review of Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Nov 2013

A magnificently quizzical diagram of two ceaselessly inquiring minds in perfect tandem, like a raw X-ray of atomized creativity…

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