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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Sep 2017

The film is the finest balance yet of Martin McDonagh's bleak sense of humor and offbeat moral sincerity…

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Review of Dayveon (2017)

By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2017

Shot in 4:3 with sliver-thin depth of field and a lush palette of swampy greens, Amman Abbasi's film is largely predicated on the idea of imparting…

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Review of First Reformed (2018)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2017

Greatness is often intertwined with insanity, and there's no way to describe the finale of First Reformed as anything other than a dual act…

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Review of Battle of the Sexes (2017)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2017

Battle of the Sexes sacrifices some of its innate appeal by making ham out of the supposed relics of a less enlightened era…

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Review of Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards (2017)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2017

Michael Roberts's documentary is an unabashed exercise in deifying its subject matter with superlatives and hyperbole from the mouths of talking…

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Review of Red Trees (2017)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2017

The banality of Marina Willer’s voiceover only goes to prove the old cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words…

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Review of Mary Shelley (2017)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2017

In its final act, the film abandons its fruitful investigation of belief systems in favor of a simplistic articulation of Mary's inspiration…

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Review of Indivisible (2017)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2017

Edoardo de Angelis's coming-of-age portrait is poignant when fixated on the intricacies of a complicated sisterhood…

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Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2017

Frederick Wiseman is a portraitist of ideals, of the insidious inspirations and nightmares that enable and undermine them, and, implicitly,…

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Review of Brad's Status (2017)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Sep 2017

The film is less contemptuous of Brad than compassionate: brutally honest about his faults, yet ultimately understanding of them…

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Review of The Florida Project (2017)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2017

Sean Baker spends much of The Florida Project charging in vigorously nimble fashion up and down the stairs of the Magic Castle, in and out…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2017

There's a blank space at the core of Molly's Game that the protagonist cannot fill, unable as she is to represent anything beyond her esoteric…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2017

Alexander Payne's defenders might call his often acidic touch Swiftian, though it comes off more toothlessly noncommittal…

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Review of England Is Mine (2017)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2017

England Is Mine is a tour ride through a legend’s formative years that’s more concerned with the familiar signposts than the intricacies…

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Review of Suburbicon (2017)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2017

Suburbicon sees a bunch of candidly left-leaning movie stars doing their best to out-awful each other…

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Review of Nobody's Watching (2017)

By Peter Goldberg (21) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Sep 2017

Julia Solomonoff's film ripples with a palpable sense of the sheer distance between the down and out actor at its center and his goals…

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Review of Mudbound (2017)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Sep 2017

As striking as Mudbound's combat scenes are, they largely exist as setup for the postwar-set second half of the film, which scrutinizes the…

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Review of BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Sep 2017

In between raids, in between the meetings with ACT UP members and those who hold the keys to their possible survival, BPM is at its most intimate…

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Review of School Life (2017)

By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Sep 2017

School Life is unfortunately committed to keeping its subjects, especially Headfort’s students, at arm’s length…

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Review of It (2017)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2017

It cashes in on trendy retroism instead of utilizing the perspective of, to borrow from Joni Mitchell, seeing clowns from both sides now…

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