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Review of All Is Bright (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2013

All Is Bright remains engaging, for the most part, but most of the big narrative turns feel both predictable and forced, and at odds with the…

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Review of Salinger (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Sep 2013

An outsized A&E Biography episode coursing with the strident urgency typical to anyone convinced they have something new to say on a long since…

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Review of La Maison de la Radio (2013)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Sep 2013

Whether or not you consider this a banal topic, it's plain to see that the puttering documentary doesn't achieve magnificence…

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Review of The Ultimate Life (2013)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Sep 2013

Its thinly veiled message of social conservatism and religious affirmations as the pathway to an ideal life is delivered with all the predigested…

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Review of Riddick (2013)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Sep 2013

For a film about a killing machine who can see at night, it's fittingly ironic that the film itself is, both narratively and visually, a dark,…

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Review of Fire in the Blood (2013)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Sep 2013

It produces a collection of one-dimensional facts strung together with an utmost respect for chronology and documentary-making's most stale…

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Review of A Teacher (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Sep 2013

We're only allowed an insufficient glimpse of the anxiousness and curiosity that drive these creatures, a tactic which feels suspiciously like…

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Review of 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Sep 2013

If you grant the documentary its slanted perspective at the outset, it works well as its own state-of-the-union address…

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Review of Red Obsession (2013)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Sep 2013

Offers the ins and outs of the world of wine as an implicit metaphor for art appreciation, from both aesthetic and financial standpoints…

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Review of Hell Baby (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2013

Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon display a freewheelin' sense of invention that should be watched closely, because they have the raw stuff…

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Review of Good Ol' Freda (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2013

The documentary will prove fascinating only to the die-hard fans that Freda Kelly spent years writing to, though in this case that's no small…

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Review of Touchy Feely (2013)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2013

Lynn Shelton crafts a film of astonishingly sustained mood, tying its beguiling atmosphere to the mental states of her characters…

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Review of Abigail Harm (2013)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Aug 2013

Lee Isaac Chung's film exudes a wonderful sense of originality, a daring and organic playfulness rarely found in American indie cinema…

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Review of One Direction: This Is Us (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Aug 2013

Some of the film's most memorable moments involve Niall and Liam looking down on oceans of screaming devotees in the street, and controlling…

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Review of Getaway (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Aug 2013

Though always speeding forward in some gear of ridiculousness, the film is a lot more fun when it's completely nonsensical, before its baddie's…

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Review of The Lifeguard (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Aug 2013

The film heroically stretches out its governing water metaphor to a point that allows it to best Garden State's Guinness World Record for most…

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Review of American Made Movie (2013)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Aug 2013

The documentary's refusal to challenge the comfort zones of its target audience is apparent throughout…

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Review of Afternoon Delight (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Aug 2013

Jill Soloway's film is dishonest in the way it attempts to mask self-pity as enlightened self-criticism…

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Review of Enter the Dragon (1973)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Aug 2013

Director Robert Clouse works the material for efficiency and optimum thrill, while providing a buoyant visual style to the action…

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Review of Closed Circuit (2013)

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

It fails as a critique of draconian security states and surveillance culture, moving too fast to properly consider any of the well-worn ideas…

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