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Review of Living in Oblivion (1995)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 May 1996

Director Tom DiCillo ingeniously structures the film as a trio of overlapping shorts that cumulatively suggest ripples emanating from a stone…

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Review of Lifeforce (1985)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Apr 1996

Watching Lifeforce now is to be reminded that even big-budget films were once allowed to be adventurous and idiosyncratic, even in the 1980s,…

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Review of The Boys from Brazil (1978)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Apr 1996

Jerry Goldmsith’s ominous score is reminiscent of his Oscar-winning work for The Omen but The Boys From Brazil is pure pomp and circumstance…

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Review of Harold and Maude (1971)

By Jordan Cronk (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Feb 1996

The effortless depiction of their growing camaraderie and unconscious courtship is one of Harold and Maude‘s great charms, as Ashby and screenwriter…

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Review of The Karate Kid (1984)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Jan 1996

The Karate Kid might have been more endurable, maybe even endearing, if its runtime had been trimmed of a solid 30 minutes…

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Review of Opening Night (1977)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Dec 1995

Opening Night hits closest to home in its long, haunting, tension-fueled riffs between Cassavetes and Rowlands, playing lovers on stage and…

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Review of Original Cast Album: Company (1970)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Dec 1995

Throughout, Pennebaker’s camera moves in as close as it can to capture every moment of doubt, disappointment and rage in Stritch’s face…

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Review of A Star Is Born (1976)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Dec 1995

The film is equal parts I Will Survive and pop martyrdom, instigated by a star so enormous that she could likely bankroll the Department of…

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Review of Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Nov 1995

Kiki presents a world of fantasy in such a genteel, unforced manner that it only seems ordinary and mundane…

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Review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Nov 1995

Nightmare’s skill wasn’t that it invented such associations—which had already been thoroughly mined by its ’70s predecessors—but…

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Review of A Man Called Horse (1970)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Oct 1995

Touted at the time of its release as a comparatively enlightened western, A Man Called Horse now looks like well-researched sensationalism—and…

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Review of Planet of the Apes (1968)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Oct 1995

Planet of the Apes became a blockbuster because it’s cannily crafted, in part, as a ripping adventure yarn, director Franklin Schaffner staging…

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Review of Night of the Living Dead (1968)

By Jeremiah Kipp (262) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Aug 1995

A stark, eerie and unrelenting parable of dread. There’s a brute force in Night of the Living Dead that catches one in the throat…

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Review of JFK (1991)

By Matt Noller (14) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 1995

JFK still retains a primal power; no number of derivative, headache-inducing CSI episodes can blunt the impact of Stone's aggressive visuals,…

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Review of The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Jan 1995

The Fabulous Baker Boys ultimately soars on the strength of its three perfectly cast stars, who collectively wed studies of glamour (Jeff Bridges…

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Review of Deadly Blessing (1981)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Dec 1994

More often than not, the movie only glancingly burrows beneath America’s attitudes toward rural evangelism that surfaced concurrently with…

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Review of Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Dec 1994

Koyaanisqatsi is enraged with modern societal convention, but still expresses awe of the spontaneous, incidental poetry that can exist despite…

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Review of Sid and Nancy (1986)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Nov 1994

Sid & Nancy, in its first half, offers an immersive plunge into the punk lifestyle, capturing with wit and verve its anti-authoritarian sneer…

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Review of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 1994

One of the subtlest and most extraordinarily fluid of American horror films, Kaufman crafts textured scenes, rich in emotional and object-centric…

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Review of Presumed Innocent (1990)

By Ted Pigeon (2) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Jul 1994

Pakula plays to Ford’s strengths, allowing the actor to use his face more than his words to convey the doubt, shame, and self-loathing Rusty…

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