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Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Dec 2011

The difference between Niels Arden Oplev's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and David Fincher's own is not, as…

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Review of We Bought a Zoo (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Dec 2011

Far more concerned with pratfalling animal shenanigans and unearned uplift than crafting a single complex or amusing moment, it's a film caged…

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Review of Pariah (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Dec 2011

It's important to talk at length about Pariah's aesthetic because of how it distracts from the emotional truthfulness of the sometimes heartbreaking,…

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Review of The Sitter (2011)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Dec 2011

An ugly rendering of an infantile script that constantly exploits stereotypes for cheap guffaws, and employs the hollow trend of hoping ultra-specific,…

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Review of Magic to Win (2011)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Dec 2011

There's a winking, spritely nature to this ridiculous content, but it's rendered impossible to follow by a lack of meaningful relationships…

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Review of Red Hook Black (2011)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Dec 2011

That Red Hook Black, a strained film about two friends struggling with jobs and family in a bleak, thickly spread economic milieu, is adapted…

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Review of Young Adult (2011)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Dec 2011

Pairing again after the mad success of Juno, Cody and Reitman prove a canny team when it comes to capturing frank yet polished modernity, getting…

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Review of Knuckle (2011)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Dec 2011

A documentary of bareknuckle fights among feuding Irish Traveller clans can't give the participants' self-perpetuating, dead-end rivalry the…

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Review of New Year's Eve (2011)

By Richard Larson (27) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Dec 2011

The lesson to learn from watching Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve, a predictably insufferable, self-congratulatory cash cow designed to be…

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Review of The Wages of Fear (1953)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Dec 2011

The Wages of Fear contains tension-fraught stretches of pure cinema that probably gave even the Master cold sweats…

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Review of My Piece of the Pie (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Dec 2011

Cédric Klapisch settles for a mixture of bland obviousness and crudely manufactured drama…

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Review of I Melt with You (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Dec 2011

The only thing more narcissistically indulgent than the film's repugnant protagonists is Mark Pellington's iPod-scored, visually flashy, thoroughly…

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Review of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Dec 2011

The purpose of Lynne Ramsay's hodgepodge approach is to distract us from the flimsiness of a story that suggests a snide art-house take on The Omen…

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Review of The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Dec 2011

Fast on its feet, using 3D and motion-capture animation to kick its comedy-adventure into a superhuman gear, Steven Spielberg's The Adventures…

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Review of Lads & Jockeys (2011)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Dec 2011

Half-formed expressions of disappointment, hope, struggle, confusion, and boyish playfulness on faces otherwise marked by youth's inexperience,…

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Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Dec 2011

Order may be restored to the Circus, the bad elements weeded out, but in the jaundiced world the film has spent the last two hours so effectively…

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Review of Answers to Nothing (2011)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Dec 2011

Speculation is futile, as plausible, worthwhile answers are the last things Answers to Nothing is prepared to give. Not that you really cared anyway…

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Review of Under Control (2011)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Nov 2011

Volker Sattel takes us on a blank-eyed tour of the country's biggest plants (plus a few from Austria), exposing both the tenuous balance of…

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Review of The Big Fix (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Nov 2011

The Tickells' style is a predictable grab bag of interviews with outraged experts and journalists, TV news footage, and scenes in which the…

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Review of Sleeping Beauty (1959)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Nov 2011

Julia Leigh's take on the fairy tale is a study in detachment and unspoken dissatisfaction, traits that imbue the proceedings with a barely-contained…

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