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Review of Machine Gun Preacher (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2011

Marc Forster regards the real-life Childers's evolution from heroin-addicted, wife-beating (implied), gun-toting oblivion to born-again do-gooderism…

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Review of Dolphin Tale (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2011

If its plotting can be slight, the film's restraint and earnestness help prevent it from ever tipping over into outright mawkishness, and its…

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Review of Pearl Jam Twenty (2011)

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

Wholly uninterested in puffing up his subjects into an iconic rock outfit on a par with their idols Led Zeppelin and the Who, Crowe instead…

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Review of The Whale (2011)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2011

When considering the best voiceover artists in cinema history, Ryan Reynolds doesn't immediately come to mind as an especially dynamic one…

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Review of A Bird of the Air (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2011

Naturally, given the film's somewhat precious air of spiritualism, the parroted phrase that speaks most clearly to Lyman is a quotation from…

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Review of The Whale (2013)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2011

When considering the best voiceover artists in cinema history, Ryan Reynolds doesn't immediately come to mind as an especially dynamic one…

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Review of Art History (2011)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2011

The staging of this dissociative roundelay is still presented in a forcefully lo-fi format, prizing roughly framed shots, improvisation, and…

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Review of There Was Once... (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2011

A not insignificant act of oral history, Gabor Kalman's There Was Once… makes for considerably less compelling cinema whenever it turns its…

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Review of Weekend (2011)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2011

A ticking stopwatch hangs over Weekend that amplifies the intensity of every conversation, every fight, every drink, every copulation…

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Review of Limelight (2011)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2011

Limelight focuses far too much on the club's downfall and not nearly enough on what attracted its denizens there in the first place, managing…

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Review of Weekend (2011)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2011

A ticking stopwatch hangs over Weekend that amplifies the intensity of every conversation, every fight, every drink, every copulation…

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Review of Straw Dogs (1971)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2011

Despite Lurie's part-time efforts to lend the film some sense of place, the impulse to hot-ify everything from Peckinpah's considerably more…

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Review of Straw Dogs (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2011

Despite Lurie's part-time efforts to lend the film some sense of place, the impulse to hot-ify everything from Peckinpah's considerably more…

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Review of Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2011

The key to good, or at least effective, agitprop (and Oliver Stone and Michael Moore know this) is that, yes, it must simplify matters, but…

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Review of I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)

By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2011

The witticisms are delivered via a suffocating glut of audience hand-holding, which includes constant doc-style confessionals, whimsical on-screen…

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Review of Contagion (2011)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2011

If Sound It Out never really digs its claws into its material, it at least approaches it with a careful level of thought and commitment…

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Review of Sound It Out (2011)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2011

The film mostly works because it doesn't overplay the consequence of its subject…

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Review of Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (2011)

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

Shut Up Little Man! fails to legitimize its topic as one of any significance…

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Review of Prince of Swine (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2011

Played as broadly and as crudely as you please (in terms of acting, direction, edgy dialogue), Prince of Swine paints a grimly ugly portrait…

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Review of The Weird World of Blowfly (2011)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2011

If The Weird World of Blowfly is any different from other documentaries about eccentric characters from music-world obscurity, it's in the…

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