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Review of Spinning Plates (2013)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Oct 2013

Spinning Plates may inadvertently be one of the year's best films about class differences in America…

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Review of Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)

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

A choppy, feature-length progression of crude, predictable gags, the film plays like a variety show, and yet its main attraction is barely…

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Review of Capital (2012)

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

Costa-Gavras's new film is more a funhouse-mirror panegyric (albeit on an exhausted topic) than the staid thriller promised by its press materials…

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Review of Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Oct 2013

Nosferatu the Vampyre Playing to the visual and narrative strengths of the original, Werner Herzog still succeeds in imprinting the material…

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Review of The Counselor (2013)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Oct 2013

The film doesn't temper enough of Cormac McCarthy's excesses, but Ridley Scott and his ensemble find enough meat in his scenario to make for…

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Review of I Am Divine (2014)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Oct 2013

Though it may boil down to your average procession-of-talking-heads template, it's still enlivened by the raucous words from the band of outsiders…

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Review of Toad Road (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Oct 2013

Writer-director Jason Banker finds the ironic beauty that arises from his characters' self-contemptuous and misplaced acts of destruction…

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Review of Carrie (2013)

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

In focusing on predominately kid-gloves portrayals of her teen players, Kimberly Peirce never properly addresses the machinery behind their…

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Review of Escape Plan (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Oct 2013

A dim anti-privatization parable that preaches a familiar strain of cynical, unchallenged self-righteousness in the face of widespread abuse…

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Review of Carrie (2002)

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

In focusing on predominately kid-gloves portrayals of her teen players, Kimberly Peirce never properly addresses the machinery behind their…

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Review of The Human Scale (2012)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Oct 2013

While there's no doubt that a city's walkability is important, the film would have benefitted from either stats or testimonials in favor of…

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Review of Enzo Avitabile Music Life (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Oct 2013

Even if the film never transcends its subject matter, Jonathan Demme's light touch adds up to a charming portrait, only rarely fumbling into…

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Review of Big Ass Spider! (2013)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Oct 2013

Mike Mendez's film is closer to recent sci-fi cable TV movies like Sharknado than the sleazy exploitation fare of the '70s…

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Review of The Human Scale (2012)

By Kelvin Henely (3) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Oct 2013

While there's no doubt that a city's walkability is important, the film would have benefitted from either stats or testimonials in favor of…

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Review of The Fifth Estate (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Oct 2013

The film is guilty of some of the same quick judgment it clearly doesn't endorse, exploiting Julian Assange's unmistakable appearance to help…

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Review of Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Oct 2013

Juliette Binoche's face, as we know, can tell a million stories in a simple and brief rearrangement of her facial muscles…

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Review of Paradise (2013)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2013

The film smartly avoids the sort of cynical hijinks that characterize the majority of Vegas-set flicks, though it can't come up with anything…

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Review of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2013

Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand's reinvention of the movie musical has tinsel, Technicolor, and a beating, broken heart…

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Review of Blood Brother (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2013

Rocky's journey of self-realization undoubtedly has a universal resonance to it that intermittently yields poignant and inspiring moments…

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Review of Haunter (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2013

Vincenzo Natali emphasizes technically impressive shots in the service of predictable, boring expository beats, at the expense of elaborating…

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