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Review of In Darkness (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Feb 2012

It's the rare film that should not introduce new story elements or characters past its first act…

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Review of Windfall (2012)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Feb 2012

Whatever the legitimate arguments Windfall makes against the industry it targets, Meredith's feuding becomes just as inaccessible as the windmills…

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Review of California Split (1974)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Feb 2012

Altman’s disgruntled comedy California Split, aside from its typically busy soundtrack (it was the first movie Altman used eight-channel…

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Review of Perfect Sense (2011)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Feb 2012

Visually glassy and smooth, Perfect Sense values the dynamic mood of each scene without being overly stylized…

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Review of Big Miracle (2012)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Feb 2012

Any goodwill it boasts is terminally suppressed, buried beneath a layer of bullshit as thick as blubber…

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Review of The Woman in Black (2012)

By Steve Persall (1,105) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Feb 2012

Despite its haunted house setting, the movie's most visible cobwebs are found in Jane Goldman's screenplay, adapted from Susan Hill's novel…

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Review of Splinters (2012)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Feb 2012

Adam Pesce never condescends to any of his subjects, but good intentions alone don't make for a captivating movie…

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Review of Chronicle (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Feb 2012

Offers up little more than a tired morality play about the dangers of power, rehashing stale insights about the narcissism of the documentary impulse…

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Review of Bad Fever (2011)

By Calum Marsh (242) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Jan 2012

In Bad Fever, Dustin Guy Defa's sad-sack indie drama about loneliness and urban ennui, a stand-up routine becomes an outlet for personal pain,…

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Review of Kill List (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jan 2012

It's a road movie of sorts, like the Steve Coogan/Bob Brydon comedy The Trip, only with fewer expert impressions and more inept executions,…

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Review of The Innkeepers (2012)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jan 2012

Winding up the tension to an almost stubborn degree, Ti West forestalls the inevitable disappointment of its release, a blow that's further…

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Review of One for the Money (2012)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Jan 2012

One for the Money is like The Bounty Hunter by Andy Tennant, if you dipped it in self-tanner and strapped some Four Loko on it…

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Review of Man on a Ledge (2012)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jan 2012

The script is a hot mess of the highest order, taking some of the stalest chestnuts in the long, venerated legacy of the framed-cop-trying-to-clear-his-name…

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Review of Come Back, Africa (1959)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jan 2012

A solid, affecting artifact of the cruelty of late 1950s South Africa, in which music often makes despair and long-suppressed anger bearable…

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Review of Five Time Champion (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jan 2012

A coming-of-age tale that, with every landscape cutaway and twinkling note from its xylophone-heavy score, begs to be taken as a dreamy slice…

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Review of After Fall, Winter (2012)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jan 2012

Taking the pedestrian and decidedly unsexy American male to Paris so he can become a sexual human being attuned to life's small pleasures is…

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Review of The Grey (2012)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Jan 2012

There's little in Joe Carnahan's previous films, marked by their frenetic, fanboy-friendly overindulgences, to predict the cold blast of The…

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Review of Red Tails (2012)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Jan 2012

Where Spielberg has made WWII a venue for his sanctimonious side, a platform to convince viewers that war is indeed hell, Lucas is still in…

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Review of Underworld: Awakening (2012)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Jan 2012

The only thing that manages to outpace Underworld: Awakening's ineptitude is its utter soullessness…

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Review of Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2012)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Jan 2012

A bubbly 90-year-old mascot from the golden days of the American musical, this doc's subject is certainly larger than the conventional testimonial…

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