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Review of Dark Touch (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2013

The film is beholden to a strange internal logic that gives primacy not to its protagonist's suffering, but to its maker's thirst for fun…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2013

Abdellatif Kechiche reveals through his sense of composition, and collaboration with his remarkable actresses, a sensitivity to emotional nuance…

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Review of We Are What We Are (2013)

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

Jim Mickle plays the scenario deadly straight and unintentionally exposes all of its attendant absurdities, leaving the cast stranded…

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Review of The Short Game (2013)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2013

This window into the world of youthful competition almost entirely disposes of social awareness in favor of routine drama…

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Review of The Short Game (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2013

This window into the world of youthful competition almost entirely disposes of social awareness in favor of routine drama…

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Review of Battle of the Year (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2013

Remarkably, the highlight of Benson Lee's film, essentially a fiction reboot of his Planet B-Boy, isn't the scene where Chris Brown gets punched…

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Review of C.O.G. (2013)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2013

As an adaptation of Davis Sedaris's short essay from his acclaimed 1997 compilation, Naked, it's a letdown, as it doesn't exude the pop of…

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Review of Enough Said (2013)

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

Enough can't be said about how the late James Gandolfini comes so close to saving writer-director Nicole Holofcener's latest articulation of…

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Review of Tom at the Farm (2014)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2013

In tackling the genre of psychological thriller with Tom at the Farm, wunderkind writer-director-actor Xavier Dolan reigns in his often flagrant…

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Review of Like Father, Like Son (2013)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2013

The film scores all of its thematic points early, commenting intriguingly, if ultimately rather obviously, on the demands of Japanese patriarchy…

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Review of Newlyweeds (2013)

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

Going neither in the direction of Reefer Madness nor a Cheech and Chong movie, it's both funny and serious, and its depictions of pot-smoking…

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Review of My Lucky Star (2013)

By Nick Usen (2) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2013

Yet another limp spy spoof that fails to make any interesting critiques about the genre, let alone construct a humorous gag…

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Review of The Colony (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2013

Greedily tries to cram every dystopian curse into one misbegotten plot, resulting in something wildly disjointed, even if its pieces arguably connect…

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Review of The Muslims Are Coming! (2013)

By Dean Essner (5) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2013

Despite their supposedly good intentions, the comedian-filmmakers broach the doc's central subject with crass and offensive standup routines…

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Review of Prisoners (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2013

Possibly year's most immaculate-looking drivel, a prismatically shot whodunit abundant in red herrings, but lacking in moral contemplation…

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Review of American Promise (2013)

By Ela Bittencourt (29) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2013

The documentary's lack of a cohesive thesis may frustrate at times, but its power lies in its exposition of the mundane…

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Review of Stranger by the Lake (2013)

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

Alain Guiraudie's film portrays cruising as a danger-seeking and astoundingly repetitive affair, intimately linked to death itself…

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Review of Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2013

Anthony Wong does a creditable job of conveying Ip Man's reflectiveness through his twilight years, occasionally cutting through the hagiographic…

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Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2013

It pokes and occasionally stabs, but doesn't twist the knife as much as it should…

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Review of The Killing (1956)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2013

One of the great devils of 1950s American cinema…

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