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Review of Taxi Driver (1954)

By Rob Humanick (476) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Mar 2011

Hitchcockian unease permeates the film, but so too does a Godardian use of space and a Bressonian focus on obsession heighten the mounting…

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Review of Paul (1974)

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

Geek is its own language, and Paul speaks it fluently…

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Review of Paul (1969)

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

Geek is its own language, and Paul speaks it fluently…

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Review of Paul (2011)

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

Geek is its own language, and Paul speaks it fluently…

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Review of Dear Lemon Lima (2009)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2011

Dear Lemon Lima is a quirky beauty of a film with its cotton-candy colors, Miranda July-esque sensibility, and its embracing of alienation…

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Review of Win Win (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2011

Despite embroiling its characters in thorny ethical and legal quandaries, Win Win is after only uncomplicated tidiness…

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Review of Bill Cunningham New York (2011)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Mar 2011

Bill Cunningham is astutely defined by Bill Cunningham New York as not simply a traditional photographer of clothing, but an anthropological…

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Review of Cracks (2009)

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

The film unfolds primarily as a case study of both a vaguely fascistic individual and a group subject to that individual's magnetism…

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Review of Cracks (2007)

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

The film unfolds primarily as a case study of both a vaguely fascistic individual and a group subject to that individual's magnetism…

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Review of Mars Needs Moms (2011)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Mar 2011

The film's production values are almost enough to make the film's monumental shortcomings worth overlooking. But only almost…

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Review of Bereavement (2010)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Mar 2011

The film is so laughably Freudian it could play as a parody of certain acclaimed horror film studies such as Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender…

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Review of The Human Resources Manager (2010)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Mar 2011

It's hard to say if the film is aiming for a political critique of the dynamics of the everydayness of suicide bombings in Israel and the country's…

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Review of Beastly (2011)

By Richard Larson (27) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Mar 2011

This is Beauty and the Beast for the Twilight generation; they've paid for abs and sparkles, and they insist on getting their money's worth…

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Review of Elektra Luxx (2011)

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

Few sequels are less warranted than Elektra Luxx, a follow-up to 2009's multi-character mess Women in Trouble…

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Review of Jane Eyre (2011)

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

Despite the well-trod dramatic territory of Brontë's classic, Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender stand out amid the windswept moors and…

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Review of I Am (2011)

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

Whatever case the subjects make for a more benevolent view of human nature, it's hard to avoid taking an oppositional stance to their testimony…

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Review of I Am (2011)

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

Whatever case the subjects make for a more benevolent view of human nature, it's hard to avoid taking an oppositional stance to their testimony…

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Review of I Am (2011)

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

Whatever case the subjects make for a more benevolent view of human nature, it's hard to avoid taking an oppositional stance to their testimony…

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Review of Public Speaking (2011)

By Lauren Wissot (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Mar 2011

We catch only glimpses below the surface of this whirlwind of wit as Scorsese steps out of the way and lets Lebowitz herself run the show…

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Review of Everything Strange and New (2011)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Mar 2011

The film does something quite amazing in allowing the kind of bottled-up emotional dynamic that heterosexual masculinity requires to finally…

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