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Review of Freeland (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2021

At their best, writer-director Mario Furloni and Kate McLean evince a masterful grasp of storytelling that’s subtle and rich in innuendo…

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Review of Halloween Kills (2021)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2021

As far as improvements go, Michael Myers’s revitalized brutality is arguably the only successful one that Halloween Kills makes…

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Review of Needle in a Timestack (2021)

By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2021

The film is too blinded by manufactured sentimentality to see the more compelling what-if scenario lying right in front of its eyes…

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Review of Parallel Mothers (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Oct 2021

The film is a ghost story as well as a story of transference, which Pedro Almodóvar understands to be one in the same…

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Review of Luzzu (2021)

By William Repass (34) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Oct 2021

Alex Camilleri’s most significant departures from his influences take place on the level of content, but, thankfully, they strain the integrity…

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Review of The Last Duel (2021)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Oct 2021

Ridley Scott’s medieval saga insightfully revels in the complexities of its competing storylines…

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Review of The Rescue (2021)

By Mark Jenkins (515) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Oct 2021

Aside from being a thrilling account of a hair-raising rescue, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s documentary attests to living a calling…

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Review of There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)

By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2021

The film feels like a missed opportunity to interrogate society’s fervent need to make pariahs out of people for their past mistakes…

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Review of LAMB (2021)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2021

Though eerie and quietly deadpan, the film circles its grab bag of themes for so long that it also becomes tedious…

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Review of Hit the Road (2021)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2021

For too much of its running time, Panah Panahi’s film is untethered from any kind of captivating narrative purpose…

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Review of Lamb (2021)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2021

Though eerie and quietly deadpan, the film circles its grab bag of themes for so long that it also becomes tedious…

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Review of Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Sep 2021

The title isn’t only a promise of so much destruction to come, but also inadvertently an assurance that its most action-packed sequences…

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Review of No Time to Die (2021)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2021

This Bond’s overall arc from modishly merciless killing machine to aging assassin with the familial feels comes off as a treacly sop to psychological…

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Review of Mayday (2021)

By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Sep 2021

The film circles a thorny premise, which makes it all the more disappointing that it results in a conventional clinch…

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Review of MAYDAY (2021)

By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Sep 2021

The film circles a thorny premise, which makes it all the more disappointing that it results in a conventional clinch…

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Review of Prayers for the Stolen (2021)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2021

There’s a haunting beauty to Tatiana Huezo’s depiction of the gradual cross-contamination of childhood innocence and criminal aggression…

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Review of A Chiara (2021)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2021

The film’s initial aimlessness is pleasurable for the way that it allows the viewer to stare at life being processed on the stunned, confused,…

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Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2021

What’s absent here is the murderous lust for power that dovetails with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s lust for each other, and which proves…

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Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2021

What’s absent here is the murderous lust for power that dovetails with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s lust for each other, and which proves…

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Review of Birds of Paradise (2021)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Sep 2021

Birds of Paradise lacks the nuance and finesse needed for its story to really take flight…

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