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Review of Jug Face (2013)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Aug 2013

Chad Crawford Kinkle impressively imbues this supernatural world of backwoods mysticism with a plausible milieu while still staying committed…

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Review of Planes (2012)

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

The film feels second-rate in every sense, from the quality of its animation to its C-list voice cast…

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Review of Planes (2013)

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

The film feels second-rate in every sense, from the quality of its animation to its C-list voice cast…

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Review of Blood (2012)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2013

Themes of family ties, obsession, and morality, so dramatically realized in Conviction, are gracelessly and shapelessly strewn together here…

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Review of We're the Millers (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2013

Though the cast partially eschews the family-friendly timidity that the film defers to in the end, this would-be wild thing remains little…

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Review of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 2013

I'll tell you what's insane: the probability that folks will go easy on this dreck because it's aimed at younger viewers, who are being distressingly…

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Review of Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride (2013)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 2013

Amy Nicholson's documentary feels warm and fuzzy about its subject, but at the same time depersonalized…

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Review of The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1985)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 2013

Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 is a bland, bloodless shambles…

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Review of The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear (2013)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Aug 2013

It ever so subtly zeros in on the extreme particularities of a remote place to find something universal, or at the very least easily comprehensible…

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Review of Off Label (2013)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Aug 2013

Sincerely angry about the crisis in polypharmacy, this narrative suffers from a documentarian form of A.D.D…

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Review of I Give It a Year (2013)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Aug 2013

Much of the film's attempted laughs come from the comedy-of-discomfort school, with an endless array of situations that milk awkwardness to…

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Review of Drinking Buddies (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Aug 2013

Less precise and cohesive than much of Joe Swanberg's recent work, as its small, improvisational skeleton struggles to meet the demands of…

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Review of Elysium (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Aug 2013

A cheekily gruesome and genuinely urgent entertainment, Blomkamp's latest nevertheless can't help but beg the question: Where's Snake Plissken…

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Review of 2 Guns (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jul 2013

Viewer/character solidarity only holds up for so long, and the film falls hard into twisty, nonsense territory, skipping over its stronger…

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Review of The Canyons (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Jul 2013

Paul Schrader and Brett Easton Ellis don't have the sense of play this kind of narrative of one-upmanship requires, as we're never allowed…

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Review of The Smurfs 2 (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jul 2013

Raja Gosnell's particular zeal to modernize the Smurfs only develops this would-be family comedy into a shamelessly manipulative smurftastrophe…

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Review of Drift (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Jul 2013

The obstacles that the Kelly brothers encounter are as uninspired as the film's treacly lessons about brotherhood and staying true to one's…

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Review of The Spectacular Now (2013)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jul 2013

Given the film's early promise, it's unfortunate how it turns into a largely reductive Freudian character piece in which the main character…

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Review of Drift (2013)

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

The obstacles that the Kelly brothers encounter are as uninspired as the film's treacly lessons about brotherhood and staying true to one's…

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Review of Lovelace (2013)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jul 2013

Lost in the music, mustaches, and furniture of the early '70s, this docudrama of a porn star's exploitation isn't nearly painful enough…

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