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Review of Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jun 2011

Can't mask that, at heart, it's merely a trifling tour documentary that gives further excessive attention to the late-night star's 2010 ouster…

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Review of A Better Life (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jun 2011

Save for its loving, plaintive, and thorough tour of the seldom-filmed East L.A., A Better Life is, top to bottom, derivative-of Polanski in…

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Review of If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)

By Lauren Wissot (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Jun 2011

While it may not pack the rollicking drama of his first feature, Street Fight, Marshall Curry's timely If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth…

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Review of A Better Life (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Jun 2011

Save for its loving, plaintive, and thorough tour of the seldom-filmed East L.A., A Better Life is, top to bottom, derivative-of Polanski in…

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Review of Motel Hell (1980)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Jun 2011

This film’s pleasures are extremely mild, but they’re discernable for the curious fan of retro redneck horror, or, far more likely, for…

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Review of Dial M for Murder (1981)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Jun 2011

In Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, even the innocent have poker faces…

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Review of The Art of Getting By (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Jun 2011

If not for its lack of self-awareness, The Art of Getting By would seem to be a spoof of ennui-inflicted teen dramas, because how else to explain…

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Review of Green Lantern (2011)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Jun 2011

Martin Campbell, though a capable director of action (Hal's training session with the Michael Clarke Duncan-voiced Kilowog is proof of that),…

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Review of Dial M for Murder (1954)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Jun 2011

What tends to make even lesser Hitchcock films shine is his innate gift for directing performers, and this accounts for many of the pleasures…

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Review of Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Jun 2011

If you're wondering where the Jim Carrey of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Dumb and Dumber fame went, don't look to Mr. Popper's Penguins for answers…

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Review of Jig (2011)

By Paul Schrodt (45) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Jun 2011

Jig doesn't twist itself into the self-important, exploitative think piece on youth ambition that Spellbound was, but it does convincingly…

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Review of Battle for Brooklyn (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jun 2011

Battle for Brooklyn brings up larger quandaries about urban development which it doesn't begin to address…

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Review of Buck (2011)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jun 2011

Life lessons abound in Buck, most of them tied to endlessly reiterated comparisons between man and horse…

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Review of David Holzman's Diary (1967)

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

What makes it so effective as a puzzle film is the way it provokes us to piece together, mentally, the life that David must have had before…

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Review of Kidnapped (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jun 2011

Its scenario and criminals devoid of any representational depth, and without any substantial ideas underlying its carnage, the film ultimately…

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Review of Kidnapped (1971)

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

Its scenario and criminals devoid of any representational depth, and without any substantial ideas underlying its carnage, the film ultimately…

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Review of Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Jun 2011

Andrew Rossi's documentary allows The New York Times a kind of nail-biting self-portraiture as it peers off the precipice of (hopefully) a…

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Review of Super 8 (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Jun 2011

J.J…

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Review of Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (2011)

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

Kitsch sprung from the lame imagination of adults who probably wish their tweeners lived their lives like Judy Blume characters…

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Review of One Lucky Elephant (2010)

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

A uniquely passive reminder of the dangers of showering exotic creatures with anthropomorphic affection…

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