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Review of Sleeping Beauty (2011)

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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Review of Coriolanus (2011)

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

Though his film's feel is pure Iraq and Afghanistan, Fiennes doesn't push those parallels unduly, and his central performances prove clear,…

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Review of The First Rasta (2011)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Nov 2011

While The First Rasta never goes beyond the surfaces of conventional documentary making of the most average kind, its reticence becomes whimsical…

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Review of Khodorkovsky (2011)

By Lauren Wissot (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Nov 2011

The director glosses over rather than digs deep into such interesting aspects as the varied opinions of the men under Khodorkovsky who've had…

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Review of The Story of Lovers Rock (2011)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Nov 2011

The Story of Lovers Rock, an unapologetically single-minded appeal for the legacy of this music, is amateurish but appealingly shaggy…

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Review of School Daze (1988)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Nov 2011

School Daze is, if nothing else, a compelling time capsule of racial politics in the late ‘80s, ethnographically sealed-off in a hothouse…

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Review of In the Family (2011)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Nov 2011

An acutely felt, altogether devastating family drama as intimate and affecting as it is sprawling and untamed…

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Review of House of Pleasures (2011)

By Phil Coldiron (7) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Nov 2011

A brief history of time and space, according to Bertrand Bonello…

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Review of Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (2011)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Nov 2011

Part of the issue here may be the nature of the talking heads themselves, most of whom are culled from Trungpa's inner circle and lack the…

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Review of Hugo (2011)

By Phil Coldiron (7) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Nov 2011

Scorsese's affection for cinema is, of course, no surprise, and Hugo doesn't shy away from stumping for the cause of his Film Foundation; which…

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Review of Arthur Christmas (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Nov 2011

A yuletide fable that boasts Aardman Animation's peerless mix of whip-smart comedy and cheery heart…

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Review of The Muppets (2011)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Nov 2011

The beloved gang's sweet reunion will melt nostalgic adults into laughter and tears, and maybe kids won't mind drippy new Muppet Walter so much…

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Review of In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (2011)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Nov 2011

It's regretful when the film essentially turns into little more than a good-mannered advertisement for a cemetery…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Nov 2011

Intended as the cinematic equivalent of an orgasm, this tirelessly hyped insta-blockbuster is loaded with OMG developments (marriage! Sex…

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Review of Silver Tongues (2011)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Nov 2011

Silver Tongues is the creation of a filmmaker who's not an acute observer, but a trickster, one who values being clever for the sake of being clever…

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Review of The Greater Good (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Nov 2011

The intersection between drug-company profiteering and lobbying, and governmental and private-sector desires to protect people from deadly…

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Review of Happy Feet Two (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Nov 2011

There's something about these films, something about the working-over these songs suffer--a wrongness that's intangible but inescapable, like…

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Review of King of Devil's Island (2010)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Nov 2011

King of Devil's Island hits the familiar plot points most prison films cherish (escape attempts, riots, chase sequences), but Hoist's keen…

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Review of Tomboy (1985)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Nov 2011

Tomboy is one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise)…

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Review of Tomboy (2011)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Nov 2011

Tomboy is one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise)…

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