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Review of Five Easy Pieces (1970)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Apr 1983

Bob Rafelson directs in an exploratory manner that naturally syncs up with Nicholson’s intuitive performance, his formalism suggesting a…

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Review of Persona (1966)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Jan 1983

Despite its elaborate meta-game-playing, which has had a pronounced and unquantifiable influence on film culture, Persona remains intensely…

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Review of Time Bandits (1981)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Oct 1982

Good as the cameos are, however, the lasting draw of the film is its exceptional aesthetic…

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Review of Django (1966)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Dec 1981

In a genre known for endless knock-offs, a trend that includes Django’s 30-plus sequels, Corbucci’s film is notable not only for the artistry…

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Review of Daughters of Darkness (1971)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Dec 1981

Kümel’s impulse to remain on the waning edge of eroticism turns what could’ve been another cheap thrill into a genuinely unsettling examination…

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Review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Nov 1981

Dr…

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Review of The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Aug 1981

Uneven and amateurish, with a sense of vulgarity that’s now dated enough to seem downright Victorian, The Kentucky Fried Movie proves the…

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Review of Rosemary's Baby (1968)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jul 1981

Rosemary’s Baby is one of horror cinema’s all-time slow burns, drawing viewers gradually into entertaining the possibility that the movie’s…

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Review of Being There (1979)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Jun 1981

Elegiac and yet ruefully funny, Hal Ashby’s Being There is at once a profoundly philosophical fable about how we become truly human only…

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Review of Annie Hall (1977)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Jun 1981

Woody Allen’s Annie Hall is made of such durable stuff that it’s liked even by many of the filmmaker’s detractors, and yet it had such…

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Review of The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 May 1981

The remnants of war are fractious and far-flung in Clint Eastwood's impressive revisionist western…

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Review of The Omen (1976)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Mar 1981

A bald-faced lamprey hitching its razor-tipped maw on the chassis of The Exorcist, The Omen’s Sunday-school parable of gothic Cathsploitation…

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Review of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

By Arthur Ryel-Lindsey (13) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Dec 1980

In Holy Grail, they put their talents to work on a larger scale, mixing wonderful satires on the Medieval legend and lifestyle with tremendous…

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Review of Phantasm (1979)

By Jeremiah Kipp (262) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Jul 1980

What makes Phantasm special is the way it captures a boy's life in 1978. [Remastered]…

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Review of The Bellboy (1960)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Dec 1979

The Bellboy clearly sets a standard of self-involvement and examination in Lewis’s work that is so successfully hermetic that it scarcely…

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Review of Limelight (1952)

By Jordan Cronk (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Oct 1979

A beautiful, melancholy meditation on aging and inspiration, and a personal film that, on account of Chaplin’s own diminishing popularity…

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Review of The Driller Killer (1979)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Jul 1979

What makes the film so remarkable is the extent to which Ferrara, even at the outset of his career, exploits sex and violence for their popular…

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Review of Mary Poppins (1964)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jun 1979

The movie, like a day at Disney World, pulls the viewer through an incessant, nigh-claustrophobic landscape of surrealism and fun…

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Review of God Told Me To (1976)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Aug 1978

God Told Me To is one of the key American horror films from the 1970s to mine the internally sexual, racial quandaries of a nation beset by…

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Review of Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

By Jeremiah Kipp (262) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Dec 1977

Alice, Sweet Alice conflates the angst of adolescent sexual development with the fury of Catholic retribution, suggesting at times an analog…

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