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Review of V/H/S/2 (2013)

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

A welcome contrast to the first film's snuff-y atmosphere and general mean-spiritedness, featuring more humor, fewer hateful characters, and…

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Review of The Lords of Salem (2013)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Apr 2013

Rob Zombie understands horror as an aural-visual experience that should gnaw at the nerves, seep into the subconscious, and beget unshakeable…

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Review of Oconomowoc (2013)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Apr 2013

Writer-director Andy Gillies's film is extremely self-conscious, but in a fashion that generally serves the material…

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Review of American Meat (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Apr 2013

Despite the intensity of its scope and research, American Meat is a decidedly soft-hitting display of an overweening good faith that, frankly,…

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Review of Fists of Legend (2013)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Apr 2013

The film is so generous in its characterizations that it's easy to overlook the fact that its hot-topic drama (bullying, economic marginalization,…

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Review of 42 (2013)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Apr 2013

The film elevates the story of Jackie Robinson to that of cornball legend rather than just honoring his legitimately uplifting, heroic saga…

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Review of Disconnect (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Apr 2013

Fails not so much because of its occasional self-seriousness or didacticism than it does from a scattered plot that makes the story's overriding…

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Review of Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Apr 2013

Perhaps the most valuable insight that the film provides about its subject is that he acts even as he directs…

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Review of It's a Disaster (2013)

By Tina Hassannia (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Apr 2013

The film flirts with big ideas about adult relationships, but fails to locate any gravitas about its characters' existential or psychological crises…

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Review of Evil Dead (2013)

By John Semley (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Apr 2013

The setup and geography are consistent with the original, though the film never makes the mistake of trying to rebottle the lightning that…

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Review of Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal (2012)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Apr 2013

Because the film clearly aims for satire, Boris Rodriguez isn't entirely guilty of indulging gruesome spectacle for its own sake…

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Review of To the Wonder (2013)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Apr 2013

Throughout To the Wonder, the new and old are incessantly twinned, blurred into a package that suggests an experimental dance piece…

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Review of Stranger Things (2013)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Apr 2013

Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal's film is a tasteful, well-orchestrated drama that never reaches beyond its humble means…

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Review of Jurassic Park (1993)

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

Now a 20-year-old antique slapped with a superfluous 3D transfer, Jurassic Park still has the power to amaze…

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Review of The Real Jurassic Park (1993)

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

Now a 20-year-old antique slapped with a superfluous 3D transfer, Jurassic Park still has the power to amaze…

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Review of Lotus Eaters (2011)

By Diego Costa (1) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Apr 2013

The free spirit-ness of its characters is certainly mirrored in the film's aesthetic playfulness, but the initial glimmer of Fassbinder-esque…

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Review of The Last Detail (1973)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Apr 2013

The Last Detail is so perfectly tailored to the star that it could’ve been mapped out from a Pythagorean theorem…

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Review of 6 Souls (2010)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Apr 2013

The film belongs to a long tradition of horror films that offensively suggest that all atheists might as well hang a Welcome sign up for the devil…

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Review of The Brass Teapot (2012)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Mar 2013

Imbued with a buoyant mysticism, the film is more gag-friendly than idea-based, primarily relying on the considerable charm of its leads to…

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Review of The Company You Keep (2012)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Mar 2013

A would-be thriller masquerading a long, dry monument to the reliability and comfort of community, blindly cocooned by its own nostalgic self-regard…

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