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Review of Life, Above All (2010)

By Ilya Tovbis (1) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jul 2011

By the time the narrative winds toward its key revelation, even the most earnest viewer is numbed and emotionally desensitized by the unfathomable…

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Review of The Woman with the 5 Elephants (2010)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Jul 2011

Watching Svetlana Geierat work, parsing the wild complexities of language as she converts Russian into German, the doc becomes a meditation…

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Review of Another Earth (2011)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Jul 2011

The hanging specter of a phantom planet puts a lot of pressure on Another Earth, a resolutely small parable of grief that often feels menaced…

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Review of The Myth of the American Sleepover (2011)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Jul 2011

Throughout this American Graffiti-like Circadian shuffle, we can sense these characters coming to grips with human realities that they dare…

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Review of Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Jul 2011

Four Adventures uses a country-mouse-and-city-mouse template to explore the morality, aesthetic sense, urban and rural savvy, and a host of…

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Review of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jul 2011

Despite gestures toward modernity and clumsy humanism, the film feels regressive, presenting a version of modern China that's as much of an…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2011

The fact that Yates marshals a mile-long grocery list of business with the grace and poise of an orchestra conductor, and makes it look easy,…

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Review of Girlfriend (2011)

By Kalvin Henely (58) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2011

Girlfriend doesn't present us with anything life-affirming, challenging, or expectation-beating about a lead character with Down's…

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Review of The Tree (2011)

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

This is one film that's overly reliant on a dubious central symbol, schematically employed…

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Review of Hood to Coast (2011)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Jul 2011

Hood to Coast mostly suffers from an incessant soundtrack that stuffs the film with a peppiness that blocks the tragedy of its characters from…

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Review of Winnie the Pooh (2011)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Jul 2011

Pooh's moral triumph isn't all that weighty, but it's almost existentially profound to see the silly old bear forgo honey a little while longer…

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Review of Daylight (2011)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Jul 2011

Daylight reaches an apex of terror that it never quite tops…

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Review of Tabloid (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Jul 2011

A slick, entertaining offering, playing at times like a tarted up E! True Hollywood Story…

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Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Jul 2011

An insurmountable amount of extras comes second only to New Line Home Video's stunning visual and audio transfer of Peter Jackson's exhilarating…

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Review of Farmageddon (2011)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Jul 2011

Farmageddon quite piquantly raises questions about the dim figures who determine what's suitable for national consumption, but it's more eloquently…

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Review of Zookeeper (2011)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Jul 2011

It's monumentally terrible. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son now has competition for worst picture of the year…

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Review of Horrible Bosses (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Jul 2011

As its titular tyrants, Spacey, Aniston, and Farrell all revel in their over-the-top noxiousness, though the latter is mysteriously given short…

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Review of Septien (2011)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Jul 2011

Like many films early in a director's career, it plays more as a sketchbook of intended future endeavors than as a cohesive and fully realized…

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Review of The Ledge (2011)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Jul 2011

There's nothing wrong with establishing a field of unlikable characters, but The Ledge not only relies on paper-thin stereotypes, it keeps…

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Review of Ironclad (2011)

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

By making John such an unrepentant freedom-opposing monster, Ironclad denies itself any moral thorniness…

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