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Review of Roma (2018)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Sep 2018

Roma is autobiography as autocritique, and in exploring a point of view adjacent to his own, Cuarón appears to have rediscovered his identity…

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Review of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2018

The final act of The House with a Clock in Its Walls stumbles between awkward, telegraphed jolts and busy, effects-heavy action, completely…

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Review of Beautiful Boy (2018)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2018

Felix Van Groeningen commendably sustains the story's profound sense of irresolution: abuse-rehab-relapse, abuse-rehab-relapse, abuse-rehab-relapse—an…

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Review of Love, Gilda (2018)

By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2018

Its success is due to the way it relies on Radner's often elegant words to relay her experience of female stardom…

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Review of Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2018

Sasha Waters Freyer forges a poignant portrait of an artist attempting to transcend the limitations of his art by refusing to see the process through…

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Review of Green Book (2018)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2018

Peter Farrelly manages to respect the severity of the characters’ social context while ensuring that Green Book never steps outside its protagonists’…

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Review of Greta (2019)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Sep 2018

Neil Jordan’s deft control of pace and tone elevates Greta past mere gimmickry, resulting in a comic thriller whose goofy humor only compounds…

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Review of Vox Lux (2018)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Sep 2018

Vox Lux sets up its main character as a beneficiary of tragedy, opening up a compellingly macabre narrative about how school shootings are…

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Review of The Song of Sway Lake (2019)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2018

Despite Ari Gold's knack for visual flourishes that capture a sense of place seemingly outside of time, The Song of Sway Lake plays like several…

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Review of The Children Act (2018)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Sep 2018

The Children Act stages the clumsiness of belated domestic confrontations with the very coldness that’s kept its characters from having discussed…

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Review of The Land of Steady Habits (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Sep 2018

Nicole Holofcener's The Land of Steady Habits often suggests the film that American Beauty might have been if the latter had been pruned of…

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Review of mid90s (2018)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Sep 2018

Jonah Hill constantly falls back on providing vague justification for his characters' behaviors, along with spoonfuls of sentiment to let the…

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Review of The Sisters Brothers (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2018

The Sisters Brothers proffers a sort of Edenic vision, comedic but tinged with sadness, of a latter-day El Dorado that’s worth basking in,…

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Review of Lizzie (2018)

By Henry Stewart (71) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2018

The film moves evenly toward a conclusion that feels as inevitable as it does inescapable, while providing a plausible framework for the still-mysterious…

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Review of Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2018

Richard E…

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Review of A Simple Favor (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2018

A Simple Favor haphazardly vacillates between suburban satire, goofy comedy, and dark, twisted psychological thriller…

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Review of Maya (2023)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2018

The film’s intimacy is as precise as its intellect is vague…

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Review of Maya (2023)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2018

The film’s intimacy is as precise as its intellect is vague…

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Review of Burning (2018)

By Niles Schwartz (11) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2018

With Burning, Lee Chang-dong extraordinarily obliterates the bifurcation between life and representation, the thing in itself and the metaphor…

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Review of High Life (2019)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2018

The film asks down-and-dirty questions about what really resides beneath thousands of years of human progress, a savage and haunting antidote…

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