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Review of Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2021

The film could be taken as an intentional travesty of the superhero genre, if only it weren’t so tortuously tedious…

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Review of The Inheritance (2020)

By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Mar 2021

The film’s throwback nature is in sync with Ephraim Asili’s interest in wanting to keep the legacy of black activism alive…

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Review of Cosmic Sin (2021)

By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Mar 2021

Every story beat is unimaginatively cribbed from better films and every tepid exchange of dialogue is unconvincingly performed…

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Review of A Cop Movie (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Mar 2021

Alonso Ruizpalacios voices a profound sense of powerlessness on the part of the police without sentimentalizing the abuses and biases of the…

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Review of Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Mar 2021

After a while, it’s hard not to feel like Radu Jude is simply shooting fish in a barrel…

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Review of Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Mar 2021

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s film is an alternately scathing, erotic, terrifying, and affirming fable of the primordial power of storytelling…

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Review of Coming 2 America (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Mar 2021

Even by the woeful standards of decades-too-late comedy sequels, Coming 2 America is desperate, belabored, and thin…

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Review of Petite Maman (2021)

By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Mar 2021

The film evinces Céline Sciamma’s profound knack for visual economy, communicating much with silent looks and structured absences…

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Review of Chaos Walking (2021)

By William Repass (34) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Mar 2021

Beneath its perfectly entertaining surface, the film is a mess of contradictions that fails to live up to its own potential…

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Review of Boogie (2021)

By Steven Scaife (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Mar 2021

The film’s characters hardly possess a sense of a history or an interior life to adequately convey racism’s psychic toll…

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Review of Language Lessons (2021)

By David Robb (16) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Mar 2021

Had the film trusted its self-imposed minimalism a little more, it might have been a lot more successful as a character study…

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Review of Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

By Dan Rubins (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Mar 2021

On its own gorgeously depicted terms, this film sticks the landing as a celebration of hope, a manifestation of what unfettered trust in our…

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Review of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)

By Dan Rubins (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Feb 2021

If the SpongeBob franchise has finally gone on the run, it seems like it’s left the audience that matters most in the dust…

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Review of My Salinger Year (2020)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Feb 2021

The film fails to effectively seize on how its main character’s life and work experiences have affected her as a person and artist…

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Review of Cherry (2021)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Feb 2021

Though the film touches on numerous hot-button topics and is packed with incident and humor, its self-aware style—from straight-to-camera…

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Review of Crisis (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Feb 2021

Time and again, the film shortchanges the human elements of its stories for drug stats that can be Googled in a matter of seconds…

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Review of Crisis (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Feb 2021

Time and again, the film shortchanges the human elements of its stories for drug stats that can be Googled in a matter of seconds…

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Review of Crisis (2021)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Feb 2021

Time and again, the film shortchanges the human elements of its stories for drug stats that can be Googled in a matter of seconds…

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Review of The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

By Dan Rubins (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Feb 2021

The film finds its purpose most pointedly when it zeroes in on the unambiguous relationship between Holiday and “Strange Fruit.”…

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Review of Test Pattern (2021)

By William Repass (34) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Feb 2021

The film strikingly punctuates the detachment of realist drama with the expressionism of psychological horror…

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