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Review of The Virginity Hit (2010)

By Richard Larson (27) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Nov 2010

Hilariously chronicles the missteps and triumphs-and everything in between-of four teenage guys in their efforts to get laid for the first time…

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Review of Brainstorm (1983)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Nov 2010

As though this ridiculousness weren’t sufficiently groan-inducing, the scenes depicting the mischief Brace wreaks on the corporation while…

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Review of Tiny Furniture (2010)

By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Nov 2010

Everyone in the film hides behind words-no one more than the director herself…

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Review of Violet Tendencies (2010)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Nov 2010

Violet Tendencies betrays both its camp roots and its grown-up goals…

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Review of Red Hill (2010)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Nov 2010

The Australian high-country setting of this blood-soaked western, brimming with jagged edged rock faces and menacing mountainsides, evokes…

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Review of Cool It (2010)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Nov 2010

It cogently and persuasively lays out its obvious, and yet far-from-embraced, thesis…

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Review of Dawn of the Dead (2004)

By Jeremiah Kipp (262) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2010

This new Dawn of the Dead doesn't stop to take a breath, and remains frequently scary and engaging in the moment without leaving much to chew…

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Review of Raging Bull (1980)

By Matthew Connolly (20) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Nov 2010

Scorsese might never again find a subject as ideal as Jake LaMotta, the Bronx-based boxer whose public bouts and private demons Raging Bull…

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Review of Waste Land (2010)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Oct 2010

Rather than issuing a warning blow to either our guts or our hearts, it's something of a soft wakeup nudge aimed somewhere in-between…

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Review of Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2010)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Oct 2010

The film's visual splendor is undercut by the nagging realization that it's in the service of a tepid snapshot of happy-go-ditzy ciphers…

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Review of Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Oct 2010

Anyone watching Paranormal Activity 2 closely enough will see that the transitions between different cameras in the film isn't motivated by…

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Review of Four Lions (2010)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Oct 2010

Four Lions would like to be scandalous; the best it can manage is being intermittently amusing…

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Review of The Kids Grow Up (2010)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Oct 2010

Regardless of the cause, the prevalence of empty-nest anxiety among baby boomers isn't terribly flattering to their conception of domestic…

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Review of Jolene (2010)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Oct 2010

Jolene's main themes, including the manipulation of youth, the fragility of love, and the suppression of individuality, try to carry the wonky…

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Review of 127 Hours (2010)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Oct 2010

Boyle's poppy conceptual razzmatazz simply suggests the man as a contestant on America's Next Top Mountain Climber, all style for the sake of style…

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Review of Wild Target (2010)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Oct 2010

Wild Target neatly and boringly makes a surrogate family out of its ill-matched trio of caricatures, and its epilogue of domesticity is enough…

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Review of Psycho (1960)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Oct 2010

Felt in the full impact of a theatrical screening (with the pleasure of seeing patrons reflexively kick or stiffen at the sight of Miles startled…

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Review of Psycho (1998)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Oct 2010

Hitchcock's manipulative classic of pure cinema does have a heart that pumps human blood, in its sublime parlor scene between Anthony Perkins…

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Review of Wild Target (1993)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Oct 2010

Wild Target neatly and boringly makes a surrogate family out of its ill-matched trio of caricatures, and its epilogue of domesticity is enough…

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Review of Psycho (2007)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Oct 2010

Hitchcock's manipulative classic of pure cinema does have a heart that pumps human blood, in its sublime parlor scene between Anthony Perkins…

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