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Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Dec 2012

The film is as incompetent, manipulative, safe, and disposable as any number of nickel-and-dime actioners, but goes to great, unconvincing…

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Review of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Dec 2012

In the theater, whenever Mike, Crow or Tom Servo flub a punchline or resort to a fart joke, you almost want to lean forward and shush them…

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Review of The Guilt Trip (2012)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Dec 2012

Mothers and sons deserve an amiable comedy they can share, but this one proves to be faulty long before the requisite freeway breakdown…

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Review of West of Memphis (2012)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Dec 2012

By taking a disturbing and sometimes conflicted look at the prejudices that led to the West Memphis Three's imprisonment, it asks murky questions…

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Review of Monsters, Inc. (2001)

By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Dec 2012

Not even the opportunistic 3D-ification can squander the pure delight of the film's meticulously detailed world of ragtag creatures…

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Review of On the Road (2012)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Dec 2012

The lack of a strong expository voice further simplifies the wealth of explicit sex Walter Salles dramatizes, much of it drawn from juicy swathes…

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Review of On The Road (2013)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Dec 2012

The lack of a strong expository voice further simplifies the wealth of explicit sex Walter Salles dramatizes, much of it drawn from juicy swathes…

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Review of On The Road (2010)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Dec 2012

The lack of a strong expository voice further simplifies the wealth of explicit sex Walter Salles dramatizes, much of it drawn from juicy swathes…

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Review of Critters 2 (1988)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Dec 2012

Critters 2: The Main Course offers a heaping helping of everything that’s missing from the first film: a reasonably intelligent and witty…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Dec 2012

It certainly suffers from the staleness of its off-the-cuff, improv-inspired mode of comedy, which prizes free-form riffing over organically…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Dec 2012

It certainly suffers from the staleness of its off-the-cuff, improv-inspired mode of comedy, which prizes free-form riffing over organically…

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Review of Tabu (2012)

By John Semley (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Dec 2012

The pangs of romance, eroticism, anguish, and longing (both for the stolen moments of private passion and for the sense-making schematics of…

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Review of Stand Up Guys (2012)

By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Dec 2012

Fails to plumb the dramatic depths of its setups, but every now and then the actors pick up the slack, filling in the blanks with three decades's…

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Review of Save the Date (2012)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Dec 2012

What's worst about the film is how it appropriates its main character's noncommittal selfishness to support its own quaint, anti-establishment themes…

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Review of Save the Date (2012)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Dec 2012

What's worst about the film is how it appropriates its main character's noncommittal selfishness to support its own quaint, anti-establishment themes…

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Review of Any Day Now (2012)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Dec 2012

Its most redeeming quality is that it isn't so quick to neuter its queer characters into a package-friendly gay couple aesthetic a la Modern Family…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By John Semley (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Dec 2012

Doubtless, Kathryn Bigelow's greatest strengths emerge when she can more freely flex her muscles as an action filmmaker…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By John Semley (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Dec 2012

While the rush toward a conventional climax is confusing, and more than a little disappointing, there's an undeniable pleasure that emerges…

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Review of Let Fury Have the Hour (2012)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Dec 2012

On a political level, the film is far from a Godardian dialectic, so the view of history that emerges is, to say the least, blinkered…

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Review of Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet (2012)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Dec 2012

Jesse Vile's film, despite its best intentions, is merely a serviceable extension of his own fandom…

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