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Review of Reminiscence (2021)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Aug 2021

Reminiscence’s noir adornments inadvertently feel closer to parody than loving homage…

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Review of The Night House (2021)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Aug 2021

The film upends the clichés that practically define the ghost story in surprising and intriguing ways…

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Review of 499 (2021)

By William Repass (34) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Aug 2021

The film raises pertinent questions about Mexico’s mixed cultural heritage and the contested representation of reality…

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Review of Demonic (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Aug 2021

Like District 9, the film is a genre outing with big ideas that’s more committed to the power of arsenals and pyrotechnics…

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Review of Cryptozoo (2021)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Aug 2021

Dash Shaw’s deceptively simple animation regularly descends into phantasmagoria that delivers on his story’s strange premise…

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Review of Don't Breathe 2 (2021)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2021

The film’s gore is just as likely to invoke fear as to serve as a killer punchline to one of Rodo Sayagues’s set pieces…

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Review of Homeroom (2021)

By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Aug 2021

Despite the film’s narrow scope, it’s hard to not be impressed by the political and civic engagement of its teen subjects…

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Review of The Meaning of Hitler (2021)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Aug 2021

Though uneven, the film is clever about avoiding age-old conundrums regarding the disavowal of the language of horror…

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Review of In the Same Breath (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Aug 2021

In Wang Nanfu’s extraordinary documentary, contemporary political structures are as much of a disease as Covid-19, and, in the long run,…

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Review of Respect (2021)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Aug 2021

When Jennifer Hudson is singing her heart out, not so much approximating Aretha’s voice as channeling her soul, the effect is transportive…

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Review of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2021

The film synthesizes the nihilistic tone of The End of Evangelion with the more hopeful terms of the anime’s original intended finale…

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Review of Beckett (2021)

By William Repass (34) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 2021

It’s thanks to a kind of tug of war between background and foreground that Beckett succeeds as a piece of entertainment…

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Review of Free Guy (2021)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 2021

There’s so much discernible IP baked into Shawn Levy’s film to make its calls for artistic ingenuity feel hypocritical at best…

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Review of Whirlybird (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 2021

At its best, Matt Yoka’s documentary vividly captures how personal demons shape creative output…

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Review of Bring Your Own Brigade (2021)

By Mark Jenkins (515) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Aug 2021

Lucy Walker’s absorbing study of California’s 2018 wildfires consistently goes in illuminating and surprising directions…

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Review of The Suicide Squad (2021)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Aug 2021

Throughout the film, James Gunn renders the half-grim, half-absurdist nature of the Suicide Squad with delightfully bloody abandon…

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Review of Swan Song (2021)

By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Aug 2021

The disconnect between the realities of different generations of gay men is one of Swan Song’s most unexpectedly joyful through lines…

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Review of Compartment No. 6 (2021)

By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Aug 2021

Juho Kuosmanen’s film interestingly thrives off of an ironic juxtaposition of character and environment…

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Review of The Green Knight (2021)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jul 2021

A methodical, if largely allegorical, exploration of its main character’s psyche, the film smooths out the enduring mysteries, opaque psychology,…

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Review of The Evening Hour (2021)

By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Jul 2021

In spite of the film’s strikingly lived-in sense of place, the script’s melodramatic storytelling works against that verisimilitude…

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