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Review of Asylum (1972)

By Jeremiah Kipp (262) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Sep 1977

Asylum tries telling similar tales (twice) and comes up pathetically short in the scare department, but the atmosphere and theatrics of the…

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Review of Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

By Zach Campbell (8) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Jul 1977

The other reason why Hawks's film can't be approached as a pure sociological interrogation is that it's, quite visibly, a Hollywood production…

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Review of Klute (1971)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Feb 1977

Pakula’s seminal detective thriller, which is truly a piercing examination of loneliness…

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Review of The Honeymoon Killers (1970)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 May 1976

The Honeymoon Killers is an intense, terrifying portrait of repression and instability…

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Review of The Awful Truth (1937)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Jan 1976

The Awful Truth is a perfect farce, devoid of any fat, in which Lucy and Jerry’s fantasies and schemes topple after one another like figurative…

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Review of Silent Running (1972)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Aug 1975

While the drones are still cuter than Ewoks, Lowell remains a cloying representation of a ‘70s acid freak shoving his save-the-trees mantra…

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Review of Force of Evil (1950)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Jun 1975

Garfield’s likably unlikable protagonist provides Force of Evil with a semblance of cohesiveness, even if the film often feels like the product…

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Review of Alice in Wonderland (1951)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Apr 1975

Of course, Alice in Wonderland has long been the Disney film of choice in the realm of drug cinema, but this radical and ridiculous trip through…

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Review of Zulu (1964)

By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Feb 1975

A good platter for a great, underappreciated classic of British cinema (under the direction of American expatriate Cy Endfield)—light on…

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Review of The Aristocats (1970)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Dec 1974

If there isn’t a single element in the entire film that’s not derivative of the studio’s then-recent past, you can’t blame them for…

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Review of Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Nov 1974

Varda captures the fairy-tale essence of early-’60s Paris with a vivacity and richness that rivals Godard’s Breathless…

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Review of Love Affair (1939)

By John Lingen (1) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Feb 1974

Unlike many romantic comedies of the current age, life is decidedly not what you make of it in McCarey’s films; instead, it comes at you…

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Review of Barbarella (1968)

By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jan 1974

A rambling, shaggy-dog structure as an excuse to flagrantly foreground softcore sexual hijinks tinged with a pungent whiff of social commentary…

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Review of Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

By Fernando Croce (3) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jan 1974

Hitch’s habit of taking us to the edge of the abyss and then returning us with a wink, so often resulting in unconvincing happy endings,…

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Review of Vertigo (1958)

By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 1972

Alfred Hitchcock’s rich and strange masterwork…

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Review of The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Jun 1972

If The Best Years of Our Lives emerges as a more contemporary-seeing film than almost anything else to which its ingredients could compare,…

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Review of The Great Escape (1963)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 May 1972

The Great Escape is that rare war film that doesn’t fully indulge in assumed nationalism, save for the fact that everyone speaks English…

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Review of Hud (1963)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Apr 1972

Remarkably dull Hud more or less plays out as a home-on-the-range knock-off of Nicholas Ray’s brilliant Rebel Without a Cause…

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Review of Wait Until Dark (1967)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Oct 1971

When the lights go out at the end of the film, so did the lights in the movie theaters.Terence Young’s tense cinematic adaptation so ruthlessly…

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Review of It Happened One Night (1934)

By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Oct 1970

Even now, It Happened One Night carries the unmistakable tenor of a breakout hit, fueled by confidently zippy repartee and manic comic invention…

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