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Review of Love, Simon (2018)

By Richard Scott Larson (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Feb 2018

Greg Berlanti's charmingly heartfelt film is a remarkably successful attempt to give shape to the experience of the closet by drawing an incredibly…

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Review of Submission (2018)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Feb 2018

This tentative questioning of the sometimes unscrupulous methods and deleterious consequences of political correctness is further undermined…

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Review of Foxtrot (2017)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Feb 2018

Icy absurdism and sorrowful ironies abound throughout Samuel Maoz's Foxtrot, whose laughs stick in your throat like the silent screams of its…

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Review of The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Feb 2018

The seesaw of effect of oscillating between extolling Sidney’s genius and lingering on his anguish begins to feel like a child slowly burning…

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Review of 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Feb 2018

The conflation of historical complexities makes for cheap pathos throughout, complete with weeping mothers and the seemingly endless dredging…

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Review of Mute (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Feb 2018

Mute is so slow and arbitrarily over-plotted that it's difficult to believe that Jones also directed the spry and enjoyable Moon and Source Code…

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Review of Mute (2016)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Feb 2018

MUTE's narrative is a self-consciously odd and stillborn mix of missing-person mystery and rehabilitation parable…

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Review of Mute (2016)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Feb 2018

MUTE's narrative is a self-consciously odd and stillborn mix of missing-person mystery and rehabilitation parable…

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Review of Mute (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Feb 2018

Mute is so slow and arbitrarily over-plotted that it's difficult to believe that Jones also directed the spry and enjoyable Moon and Source Code…

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Review of Game Night (2018)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Feb 2018

The film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that’s tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative…

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Review of Every Day (2018)

By Henry Stewart (71) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Feb 2018

Throughout, the film raises metaphysical issues of physical and psychological autonomy only to gloss over them, probably because addressing…

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Review of Annihilation (2018)

By Henry Stewart (71) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 2018

Annihilation gets momentum from the deeper it pushes into the uncertainties of ecology and the self…

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Review of Annihilation (2018)

By Ryan Stewart (47) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 2018

Annihilation gets momentum from the deeper it pushes into the uncertainties of ecology and the self…

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Review of Half Magic (2018)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 2018

The film displays a sprightly tone and blissful sense of liberation in charting the exploits of characters seeking to live by their own feminine-centric…

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Review of Annihilation (2018)

By Henry Stewart (71) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 2018

Annihilation gets momentum from the deeper it pushes into the uncertainties of ecology and the self…

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Review of November (2018)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 2018

Rainer Sarnet is as invested in telling a convoluted story that feels rooted in millennia-old folklore as he is in unabashedly experimenting…

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Review of Unsane (2018)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 2018

Even Unsane's most ridiculous moments coast on the sheer energy of Steven Soderbergh's aesthetic gamesmanship…

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Review of Damsel (2018)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Feb 2018

It's well established by now that the mythic Old West was always a trope written and controlled by men, and that there's really no bottom to…

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Review of Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Feb 2018

The film is disarming for its sincerity, unalloyed in its positive thinking but unafraid of showing the gruesome details of alcoholism and…

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Review of Beast of Burden (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Feb 2018

The film’s flashbacks, which are either too clipped or excessively scored, effectively step on the actors’ toes…

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