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Review of Texas Killing Fields (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Oct 2011

Texas Killing Fields's mood is one of drowning in quicksand, though said atmosphere is the byproduct of both Ami Canaan Mann's often dreamy…

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Review of Shame (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Oct 2011

Shame articulates a shallow, even mundane, understanding of an uninteresting man's sex addiction-in a vibrant city rendered dull and anonymous…

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Review of Incendiary: The Willingham Case (2011)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Oct 2011

Incendiary exposes a crucial social dialectic without affixing a relatable, if reductive, human face to the center…

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Review of Real Steel (2011)

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

If familiarity is endemic to this feel-good drama, there's nonetheless also something to be said for competent amalgamation and regurgitation…

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Review of The Ides of March (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2011

Clooney's films as director often begin with a familiar point A and conclude at a less-familiar point B, deriving much of their interest from…

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Review of Margaret (2011)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Oct 2011

The film's imperfections work in the sense that they rhyme with the agitation and sense of dislocation the characters feel…

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Review of Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011)

By Lauren Wissot (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Oct 2011

As thorough as the filmmakers are in providing a political context for Fishbone, they're often reduced to tunnel vision in an attempt to lift…

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Review of The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)

By Richard Larson (27) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Oct 2011

The desire to eat someone's ass is almost always superficial; there's no thought of sustenance, and more sophisticated pleasures are usually…

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Review of The Way (2010)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Oct 2011

The making of The Way must have been a nice moment for father and son, but why must the rest of us suffer…

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Review of Hell and Back Again (2011)

By Lauren Wissot (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Oct 2011

Unlike most war documentaries, which tend to only skim the surface of its gun-toting subjects' lives, photojournalist Danfung Dennis's Hell…

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Review of Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Sep 2011

Nuri Bilge Ceylan has to be the least kinetic of working filmmakers - and not simply in the sense of static camerawork or lack of narrative momentum…

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Review of Dream House (2011)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2011

A modest genre entry, Dream House also benefits from the fact that any movie with good enough sense to cast Elias Koteas is automatically better…

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Review of Courageous (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2011

Even the logos for the companies involved in its making (Sherwood Films and Affirm Films) and distribution (TriStar Pictures) scream that this…

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Review of What's Your Number? (2011)

By Miriam Bale (64) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Sep 2011

Watching Faris's reactions to the bizarre material that makes up this film is like witnessing someone with a weird sense of humor make a string…

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Review of Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology (2011)

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

One of the film's main problems is the fact that Shlain is so invested in connecting her father's scientific findings…

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Review of Carnage (2002)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2011

One doesn't have to look too closely at Carnage's final shot to marvel at the way Polanski refuses to haughtily indict his audience in the…

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Review of You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (2010)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2011

Omar the martyr overwhelms Omar the human being in this ultimately dry and overtly biased attempt at cinematic protest…

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Review of Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2011

For all of the documentary's wholesale condescension, you never doubt that Sarah Palin, conspicuous by her absence, has gotten exactly what…

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Review of Carnage (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2011

One doesn't have to look too closely at Carnage's final shot to marvel at the way Polanski refuses to haughtily indict his audience in the…

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Review of The Last Picture Show (1971)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2011

Delineates the quiet, desperate lives of the citizens of Anarene, Texas over the course of one year in the early 1950s…

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