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Review of Mile 22 (2018)

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

When Mark Wahlberg's Silva isn't wielding run-on sentences as military-grade weapons, he barks out derivative commands and asinine statements…

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Review of Alpha (2018)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Aug 2018

It reduces the domestication of wolves to a series of simplistic interactions that don’t exactly convey the difficulties of a wild animal…

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Review of Minding the Gap (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Aug 2018

Zack and Keire's stunts are action scenes that are imbued with the gravity of the participants' youth, revelry, and need to prove themselves…

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Review of The Wife (2017)

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

Glenn Close's perennial look of astonishment and resilience commands the action to the point of turning every other screen element into a gratuitous…

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Review of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2018

It all feels cheap and looks cheap, a far cry from what S. Craig Zahler can do when overseeing both a film's words as well as its images…

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Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2018

The filmmakers’ ability to seamlessly explore rapidly shifting Chinese cultural norms within the context of the classic trope of a mother…

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Review of We the Animals (2018)

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

In We the Animals, director Jeremiah Zagar sustains a tone of wounded nostalgia, fashioning a formalism that appears to exist simultaneously…

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Review of Juliet, Naked (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2018

The film is loaded with inconsequential detours and questionable and inconsistent character psychology as it stumbles awkwardly to its foregone…

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Review of The Meg (2018)

By Niles Schwartz (11) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Aug 2018

Jaws works as both a horror film and a human drama…

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Review of Dog Days (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Aug 2018

Aside from the occasional idiosyncratic comic beat, Dog Days remains committed to coloring within the lines of established tropes in the animal-centric…

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Review of Dog Days (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Aug 2018

Aside from the occasional idiosyncratic comic beat, Dog Days remains committed to coloring within the lines of established tropes in the animal-centric…

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Review of Dog Days (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Aug 2018

Aside from the occasional idiosyncratic comic beat, Dog Days remains committed to coloring within the lines of established tropes in the animal-centric…

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Review of A Prayer Before Dawn (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2018

A Prayer Before Dawn is concerned above all with ensuring that we share its main character's sense of dislocation and entrapment…

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Review of Dog Days (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2018

Aside from the occasional idiosyncratic comic beat, Dog Days remains committed to coloring within the lines of established tropes in the animal-centric…

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Review of Elizabeth Harvest (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 2018

Sebastian Gutierrez's film creates an incestuous atmosphere that's reminiscent of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe…

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Review of Skate Kitchen (2018)

By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Aug 2018

The film is empathetic toward and clear-eyed about its young characters, even if the drama it constructs around them tends toward the superficial…

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Review of The Age of Innocence (1993)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Aug 2018

Following Wharton's example, Scorsese accepts The Age of Innocence's flamboyantly wealthy and corrupt characters as they are without indulging…

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Review of Christopher Robin (2018)

By Niles Schwartz (11) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Aug 2018

Unlike the red balloon that Winnie the Pooh follows through much of the running time, Marc Forster's film lacks lightness…

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Review of The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Aug 2018

The film's refusal to produce a campy critique feels more like the product of lack of imagination than a purposeful repudiation…

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Review of The Darkest Minds (2018)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Aug 2018

The Darkest Minds never communicates the overwhelming horror of a society whose children are either dead or in the process of being exterminated,…

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