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Review of Becoming Traviata (2012)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 May 2013

It works as a reminder of the important interactiveness of the performing arts, of actors evoking the drama, action, and emotion that computers…

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Review of The English Teacher (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 May 2013

This is the second recent release—after The Great Gatsby, whose overwrought, on-screen text it even shares—that aims to channel great,…

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Review of Frances Ha (2013)

By John Semley (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 May 2013

Noah Baumbach's film feels like too perfect a portrait of quarter-life malady, down to the rushed redemptive endnotes and Greta Gerwig's idealized…

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Review of Augustine (2012)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 May 2013

Alice Winocour's take on this true story carries the superficial trappings of a period drama, but its perspective is entirely contemporary…

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Review of Bidder 70 (2013)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 May 2013

Without being didactic, the documentary demonstrates how an ordinary concerned citizen can take a stand when politicians neglect to make decisions…

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Review of No One Lives (2013)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 May 2013

Ryuhei Kitamura's latest genre bloodbath is par for the course, in spite of the occasionally flourish of interesting subtext…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 May 2013

When The Great Gatsby actually stops to breathe, there is some greatness to be found, however brief it may be…

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Review of He's Way More Famous Than You (2013)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 May 2013

It would have been nice if the film had surrendered to its lunacy more blatantly, more carelessly…

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Review of Assault on Wall Street (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 May 2013

Uwe Boll's insistence on plugging genre tropes into his imagined idea of populism returns us to the same cynical place as Postal, except with…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Richard Larson (27) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 May 2013

This is a film which takes classic source material and imbues it on screen with a sense of wonder commensurate to its prior form, perhaps offering…

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Review of One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das (2013)

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

The overall product doesn't reveal anything about its subject that a Wikipedia page couldn't do just as well…

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Review of Aftershock (2012)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 May 2013

There's plenty of gore, but none of it is particularly inventive, nor does it engender any visceral or emotional reactions beyond jaded disgust…

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Review of Sightseers (2012)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 May 2013

This sardonic depiction of Britain, as a land where a thin veneer of strained politesse and fussy specificity of tastes masks a throbbing heart…

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Review of Peeples (2013)

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

Tina Gordon Chism's film collapses into a series of clumsy improvisatory sketches, tied up in cheap, risibly sentimental catharsis…

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Review of Venus and Serena (2012)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 May 2013

Opting for inspiration over insight, Venus and Serena is a starry-eyed pop doc that cannot transcend its scattershot, for-fans-only filmmaking…

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Review of And Now a Word from Our Sponsor (2013)

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

It's a testament to Bruce Greenwood's acting that Adan never becomes entirely as insufferable as the words that come out of his mouth…

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Review of Erased (2012)

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

The film seldom pushes beyond the bare-minimum dictates of the thriller, only rarely offering up a memorable action sequence…

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Review of Java Heat (2013)

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

A middling genre movie, but it's oddly likable for its conflicted, unresolved tension…

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Review of Love Is All You Need (2012)

By Caroline Mckenzie (2) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 May 2013

At times it seems as if Susanne Bier set out to create some kind of absurdist comedy, but lost her nerve somewhere along the way…

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Review of Free the Mind (2013)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 May 2013

Phie Ambo deftly captures her subjects' sense of paranoia and helplessness without encroaching on their brave candor…

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