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Review of Before Midnight (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Apr 2013

These films have always been about the power of words, their ability to bridge gulfs of time and space, the thrill of ideas and opinions taking…

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Review of Kon-Tiki (2012)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2013

It lacks the fire and eccentricity that we want from our stories of adventurers driven by obsessions that could be seen as egotistical or just…

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Review of All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2013

Like far too many modern horror films, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane flaunts its knowledge of classic genre fundamentals but fails to do anything…

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Review of Graceland (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2013

The film's plot isn't unusual, but director Ron Morales strips it down to its primal essence…

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Review of Paradise: Love (2012)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2013

It often seems more intent on spelling out its awareness of the politics involved than in lingering on the aching human engaged in the libidinal…

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Review of Running from Crazy (2013)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2013

The modern-day sections with Mariel Hemingway, while detailing the redemptive promise of the title, too often come across as either indulgent…

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Review of Big Bad Wolves (2013)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2013

From a purely suspenseful vantage point, Big Bad Wolves is an efficient and effective beast…

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Review of Passion (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2013

Passion is a serpentine, gorgeously orchestrated gathering of all of De Palma's pet themes and conceits, a symphony of giddy terror where people…

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Review of Mud (2013)

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

The film ultimately succeeds thanks to small details, from its deep-fried lingo and the swampy texture of its location photography to its uniformly…

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Review of Southern Comfort (1981)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2013

Southern Comfort is a thriller that twists one up in knots, whipping the audience up to a point where they may wish that director Walter Hill…

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Review of The Numbers Station (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Apr 2013

Sits awkwardly between shoot 'em up and psychological thriller without offering the excitement of either…

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Review of Cutie and the Boxer (2013)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Apr 2013

Funny, moving, honest, and occasionally inspiring, but as a portrait of a talent emerging from the shadow of a more public talent, the scale…

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Review of Kon-Tiki (1950)

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

It lacks the fire and eccentricity that we want from our stories of adventurers driven by obsessions that could be seen as egotistical or just…

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Review of Taboor (2013)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Apr 2013

The sense that all of this is leading somewhere productive, that all of these images are going to add up to something more than a well-sustained…

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Review of Oblivion (2013)

By Calum Marsh (242) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Apr 2013

Absent of any sense of self-awareness, Oblivion seems only self-serious, a ponderous mess both misguided and unaware…

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Review of In the House (2012)

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

It's buoyant and titillates, striking that distinctly Ozonian balance between the beautiful and the sinister, but it doesn't resonate…

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Review of The Patience Stone (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Apr 2013

While Atiq Rahimi's film may peel away the many layers of its female lead like an onion, the end result is still just an onion…

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Review of Portrait of Jason (1967)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Apr 2013

Shirley Clarke counters Jason's queen-bitch attitude by reminding us with vocal and technological interjections that this is a performance,…

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Review of Prince Avalanche (2013)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Apr 2013

The psychological path of these characters is finely marked with signposts, but as Prince Avalanche reaches its destination, you almost wish…

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Review of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Apr 2013

The laziest sort of political cinema, full of straw men and finger-pointing, wrapped up in an awards-friendly bow by its beautiful cinematography…

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