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Review of The French Connection (1971)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2011

An electrifying achievement, drawing its high-voltage forward momentum from the collision of semi-documentary procedural, with its based-on-real-events…

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Review of Drive (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2011

A lot of critics will talk about how the movie is a stripped-down, pure genre piece, and there's a lot of truth to that…

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Review of The Mill and the Cross (2011)

By Lauren Wissot (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2011

Every bit as visceral an experience as Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and with a lead actor whose face radiates the same eternal quality as that…

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Review of Restless (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2011

Gus Van Sant's cinema, which of late has been fixated on immersing viewers in particular times and spaces, takes a detour into excruciating…

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Review of Jane's Journey (2011)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2011

Despite the fact that Goodall narrates the bulk of the material, there are scant details about her concrete contributions to animal and life…

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Review of Berlin '36 (2009)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2011

Excepting a momentary late-film lapse into eye-rolling double-exposure tomfoolery, the film is as aesthetically bland as a film could conceivably…

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Review of Happy, Happy (2010)

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

The filmmaker looks to American modes of visual and aural expression to give Happy, Happy its soul, but all her fetish accomplishes is depersonalizing…

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Review of Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2011

You may or may not laugh, but at least you'll be closer to death and no better for it…

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Review of Inside Out (2011)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2011

Inside Out should be wild and violent, playing on the soap-operatic mood swings that drive televised wrestling; instead it's one or two murders…

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Review of Love in Space (2011)

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

The weightlessness that dominates the film is no special effect…

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Review of Contagion (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Sep 2011

A germophobe's worst nightmare, Contagion touches on all the dramas big and small, mostly big, we've come to associate with catastrophes such…

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Review of Apollo 18 (2011)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2011

A nasty, cleverly revealed monster might have redeemed some of the monotony of the first (seemingly endless) hour, but the beasty here manages…

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Review of Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011)

By Arthur Ryel-Lindsey (13) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2011

Note the noticeable uptick in the cleverness of the on-screen graphics or fitfully remember the movie poster's tagline, His Greatest Match…

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Review of Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football (2011)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2011

In the documentary, the game is a make-believe war of pent-up frustrations linking race, nation, and manhood, one which teenage boys named…

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Review of The Inheritors (2011)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2011

Assembled from short, naturalistic shots of people at work, the documentary becomes a bittersweet testament to labor and a damning representation…

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Review of Shaolin (2011)

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

Only Jackie Chan, in a comedic supporting role as a Zen-trained cook who applies his culinary techniques on the battlefield (he stir-fries…

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Review of We Were Here (2011)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2011

Simply and devastatingly letting five residents of San Francisco share their reminiscences of that city's nightmarish war zone in the early,…

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Review of My Kingdom (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Sep 2011

If this oddly delineated narrative often falls between two stools, then the replacement of brightly bombastic opera battles with dimly lit,…

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Review of Where Soldiers Come From (2011)

By Lauren Wissot (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Sep 2011

A four-year study of an Afghan war-bound group of friends (the mother of Cole, the goofy joker of the group, compares the boys to the characters…

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Review of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)

By Lauren Wissot (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Sep 2011

Simply put, the documentary is full of cool talking heads pontificating rather than taking physical action…

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