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Review of A Fantastic Woman (2017)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jan 2018

Superficial when it means to be elliptical and regressive in its attempts to promote pride and tolerance, Sebastián Lelio’s film is beautiful…

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Review of The Cage Fighter (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jan 2018

The Cage Fighter isn't sentimental about the notion of an aging sports hero who needs one more day in the proverbial sun, recognizing that…

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Review of The Other Side of Hope (2017)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jan 2018

The Other Side of Hope fulfills the vague sense of its aspirational title as a film limited in scope and led only by the guidance of its maker's…

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Review of Please Stand By (2018)

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

Dakota Fanning's Wendy is less a truly thought-through character than a compendium of quirks…

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Review of Have a Nice Day (2018)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jan 2018

The film's pale-hued, Flash-like animation is abundant in detailed backgrounds that make the characters stand out like placards, allowing for…

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Review of The Competition (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jan 2018

The will-they-won't-they of the film is a non-starter, and as such the film's climax is stripped of suspense and even the most basic of dramatic…

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Review of Have a Nice Day (2018)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jan 2018

The film's pale-hued, Flash-like animation is abundant in detailed backgrounds that make the characters stand out like placards, allowing for…

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Review of Have A Nice Day (2018)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jan 2018

The film's pale-hued, Flash-like animation is abundant in detailed backgrounds that make the characters stand out like placards, allowing for…

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Review of West of the Jordan River (2018)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jan 2018

Amos Gitai regularly takes incidents and anecdotes out of context, making it difficult for viewers who lack intimate knowledge of the Palestinian-Israeli…

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Review of Like Me (2018)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Jan 2018

Like Me is exhilarating because of Robert Mockler’s willingness to deviate from his satire so as to surprise himself with seemingly spontaneous…

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Review of The Clapper (2018)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Jan 2018

Though it pretends to stick up for all the schmucks in the world, the film is really just laughing along with the assholes…

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Review of 12 Strong (2018)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jan 2018

As Nicolai Fuglsig doesn't allow any complicated thoughts about war, colonization, and mortality to hover around his characters, 12 Strong…

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Review of Forever My Girl (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jan 2018

Forever My Girl makes one wonder if Bethany Ashton Wolf actually thinks this is what true love is like…

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Review of Den of Thieves (2018)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Jan 2018

Den of Thieves displays a reverence for the taut and moody tension-building tactics of Michael Mann's Heat, but without a single compelling…

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Review of Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Jan 2018

Emotional complication is what this film, so abundant in last-minute getaways, fake-outs, and half-hearted nods to the franchise's greatest…

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Review of Mom and Dad (2018)

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

Writer-director Brian Taylor's Mom and Dad invests a hoary conceit with disturbing and hilarious lunacy…

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Review of The Final Year (2018)

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

For liberals, The Final Year might become a kind of metaphorical marriage video that’s watched by divorcees who yearn of that initial hint…

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Review of The Leisure Seeker (2018)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Jan 2018

No matter how likable Sutherland and Mirren are, they're still stuck in little more than an upbeat wish-fulfillment fantasy…

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Review of Rebel in the Rye (2017)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Jan 2018

The whole affair suggests dramatic Tetris, and it leeches the artist and his process of any mystery…

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Review of Proud Mary (2018)

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

Babak Najafi’s Proud Mary is a so-so action melodrama with an insulting whiff of generic blaxploitation stylistics…

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