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Review of Dogman (2018)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 May 2018

Italian director Matteo Garrone's film offers up art-house-by-numbers neorealism with an angle of political-power allegory that quickly turns…

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Review of In Darkness (2018)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 May 2018

Anthony Bryne's high-flown style only serves to highlight the film's icky way of exploiting real-world tragedy for kicks…

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Review of Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 May 2018

One gets the sense that Wim Wenders, whether of his own volition or at the urging of others, is perpetually walking on eggshells, only tossing…

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Review of Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 May 2018

It often plays like a toothless PR video designed to rehabilitate the Catholic Church's reputation in the wake of its global pedophilia scandal…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 May 2018

Spike Lee styles the film as a popular entertainment, forgoing the theatrical satire typical of his late-period state-of-the-nation joints,…

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Review of The House That Jack Built (2018)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 May 2018

The film becomes an even broader consideration of individual fascinations and follies, of ways of responding to art without the boundaries…

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Review of Fahrenheit 451 (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 May 2018

Season 1 Review: Bahrani renders reading passive without any sense of irony, reducing books to a bland MacGuffin…

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Review of Book Club (2018)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 May 2018

It’s been said that casting is 90% of directing, and it seems to be 90% of the writing in Bill Holderman's film…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 May 2018

The imprint of Star Wars on everyday American life now feels so despotic that it's too much to ask a film like Solo to be moving or thrilling…

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Review of On Chesil Beach (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 May 2018

The film’s imaginative daring springs from its willingness to render repression sexy, even if it will prove to be the seed of a young couple’s…

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Review of Climax (2018)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 May 2018

Gaspar Noé's relative narrative economy allows for Climax to feel like only a disappointing missed opportunity…

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Review of Deadpool 2 (2018)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 May 2018

Deadpool 2 muddies the distinction between parodying comic-book-movie conventions and perfunctorily adhering to them…

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Review of Dark Crimes (2016)

By Henry Stewart (71) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 May 2018

There’s a lot of sexual violence in the film, but it scans as unimaginatively repulsive, as well as blatantly misogynistic…

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Review of Dead Souls (2018)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 May 2018

The anguish expressed and experiences described by the survivors certainly can overlap with each other, and even become repetitive, but it’s…

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Review of First Reformed (2018)

By Greg Cwik (29) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 May 2018

After more than 20 features, Paul Schrader has been reborn with First Reformed, an unhurried, furious, deeply agonized look at faith and skepticism…

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Review of Cold War (2018)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 May 2018

The film is most exhilarating as a breathless vessel for mood, one that just so happens to conduct itself within reconstructed period settings…

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Review of Yomeddine (2018)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 May 2018

The way everything just works out in the end for the characters on the strength of just their pluck and perseverance makes the film secretly…

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Review of Life of the Party (2018)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 May 2018

Novelty and Melissa McCarthy’s comedic chops only carry Life of the Party to midterms, and it soon becomes apparent that it’s a star vehicle…

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Review of The Escape (2018)

By Josh Wise (22) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 May 2018

It deals with a very ordinary emergency with deftness of touch, and the power of a singular performance…

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Review of The Escape (2017)

By Josh Wise (22) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 May 2018

It deals with a very ordinary emergency with deftness of touch, and the power of a singular performance…

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