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Review of Narco Cultura (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Nov 2013

Director Shaul Schwarz, sans judgment, presents us with two men who epitomize how accepted and engrained narco culture has become in Mexico…

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Review of Philomena (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Nov 2013

A human-interest story that claims spite for human-interest stories, the film has some pretty divisive issues at its core that leave it torn…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Richard Larson (27) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Nov 2013

Francis Lawrence imbues the source material with visceral pleasure in well-wrought scenes vacillating between elaborate spectacle, breathtaking…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Nov 2013

The film's empowering themes of feminine strengths and bonds eventually flourish in novel fashion…

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Review of Charlie Countryman (2013)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Nov 2013

An egregious entry into the pantheon of films about white Americans traveling to exotic lands in search of identity and soul-searching adventure…

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Review of The Best Man Holiday (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Nov 2013

The sexism isn't quite as noxious as one might find in Tyler Perry's films, but that's as far as the compliments go when it comes to this overextended…

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Review of Dear Mr. Watterson (2013)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Nov 2013

Though it begins by spending far too much time talking up the comic's quality, it gradually finds a groove as an incisive portrait of an insecure…

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Review of The Great Beauty (2013)

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

Paolo Sorrentino's film is really just a huge turn-on that has the bad manners to go sour, succumbing to its own self-delusions of moral/political…

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Review of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Nov 2013

The research that went into the film seems a largesse, but it's compromised at every turn by filmmaker Amei Wallach's sloppy, pedantic delivery…

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Review of Diana (2013)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Nov 2013

Are the micro-biopics that don't even bother to provide overviews of their famed subjects' entire lives, but instead lean on the spectacle…

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Review of Reaching for the Moon (2013)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Nov 2013

Bruno Barreto's insistence that this pass for a product that Hollywood might have spawned smoothens a journey built on sharp edges…

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Review of The Book Thief (2013)

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

Books themselves become the story's key symbol, representing the past and future, loss and possibility, of a place that's ground zero for some…

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Review of Medora (2013)

By Kelvin Henely (3) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Nov 2013

It feels as if it set out to be an inspirational tale about underdogs beating the odds, but instead of giving color to the story, the filmmakers…

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Review of Thor: The Dark World (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Nov 2013

Superhero movies aren't going anywhere, nor is their standard, on-to-the-next-fight structure, so it's heartening to see a gem that grandly…

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Review of Birth of the Living Dead (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Nov 2013

The film is unavoidably slight, but there's a certain pleasure in watching talented people wax passionate about a common source of inspiration…

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Review of The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Nov 2013

Jo-Anne McArthur's cause draws sharp comparisons with the never-mentioned PETA, a seemingly insignificant omission that discloses a lingering…

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Review of Best Man Down (2012)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Nov 2013

While it tries to relate a story about the sloppiness of life, the way best-laid plans can go wrong in an instant, its script is neatly and…

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Review of How I Live Now (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Nov 2013

There are a few effectively disquieting sequences early on, but the film never recovers from director Kevin Macdonald's indifferent staging…

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Review of It's Me It's Me (2013)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Nov 2013

Alternating between self-consciously offbeat comedy and existential J-horror, It's Me, It's Me never quite satisfies in either mode…

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Review of The Armstrong Lie (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Nov 2013

The film can't entirely avoid the feeling of a less-productive score-settling hit piece, as if Alex Gibney was making this film merely to stick…

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