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Review of Carnage (1984)

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 Finding Joe (2011)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Sep 2011

Finding Joe maintains that every person should, as Joseph Campbell wrote, find your bliss, a potentially valuable nugget of wisdom that this…

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Review of American Teacher (2011)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Sep 2011

The movie is a curious blend of teacher-appreciation mandate and recruitment video, though it's not always clear at whom the narration's gravely…

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Review of 50/50 (2011)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Sep 2011

The movie is far more successful in its execution of the young-man-meets-mortality element, warranting its existence by bringing some well-considered…

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Review of Surrogate Valentine (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Sep 2011

The relationship between the two leads neither deteriorates nor seriously improves and last-minute romantic developments don't so much as give…

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Review of The Skin I Live In (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Sep 2011

This is a beautiful vision, but in telling too many flowery secrets, it's also one that unnecessarily keeps its queerness in the closet…

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Review of Mammuth (2010)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Sep 2011

The movie's deathblow is the casting of poet-artist Miss Ming as Mammuth's affectless niece, whose twee verse and sculpture make Miranda July…

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Review of Journey from Zanskar (2010)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2011

It's the rare urgent-issue movie that refuses to pummel you with the importance of its subject matter, which in this case involves the shameful,…

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Review of Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2011

Flip-flopping traditional genre dynamics in a manner more cute than uproarious, Tucker & Dale Vs…

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Review of Bunraku (2010)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2011

Writer-director Guy Moshe's crime saga is a work of second-generation derivation, weaving together scraps from homages to Westerns, film noir,…

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Review of Take Shelter (2011)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2011

It's not easy to give a character study concerning mental illness the aspect of a psychological thriller without some notes of exploitation…

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Review of A Dangerous Method (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2011

As rigorous and stimulating as its thematic inquiries are, A Dangerous Method ultimately rests as much on its performances, and in that regard,…

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Review of The Loneliest Planet (2012)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2011

Much of the film's final act is given to alienated walking, which too often plays as an abstract study of triangular arrangements in which…

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Review of Corpo Celeste (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2011

Alice Rohrwacher's debut feature exhibits the sort of mannerisms a certain stripe of cinephile tends to dread, on or off the festival circuit…

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Review of Melancholia (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2011

The poetic, referential succession of near-still images that opens the film so immaculately distills Melancholia's moody narrative and themes…

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Review of The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Sep 2011

At the same time that director Carl Colby probes into the true character of his mysterious father through an arsenal of interviews with those…

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Review of Killer Elite (2011)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Sep 2011

Killer Elite is pleasurable enough, but with a steadier hand, it could've been one for the books…

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Review of In Search of God (2011)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Sep 2011

This is didactic self-help drivel of the worst kind, as filmmaker Rupam Sarmah creates a return-to-the-origin narrative contaminated by what…

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Review of Abduction (2011)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Sep 2011

Odds are John Singleton doesn't know he's made one of the funniest films of the year…

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Review of Moneyball (2011)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Sep 2011

True to Hollywood's tireless efforts to fit square-peg material into roundish genre niches, this wavering, intermittently smart story of daring…

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