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Review of Bushwick (2017)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Aug 2017

Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott's Bushwick is a genre film with a refreshing sense of political infrastructure…

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Review of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Aug 2017

Twenty-six years after its release on Independence Day weekend in 1991, it's difficult not to watch Terminator 2: Judgement Day through a scrim…

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Review of Death Note (2017)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Aug 2017

Whereas the more grounded scenes of Death Note anchor a startlingly bloody fantasy of power run amok, the scenes that fixate on super powers…

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Review of Leap (2017)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Aug 2017

The film’s careful attention to detail in the animation is continuously undermined by a formulaic plot and anxious pandering to contemporary…

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Review of Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Aug 2017

It's no surprise that Nick Broomfield finds little use for the moments of unabashed triumphalism in Houston's life, as he's doggedly fixated…

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Review of Lemon (2017)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Aug 2017

Self-absorption is Janicza Bravo’s focus, though—as in other smug and mock-ironic comedies—it’s a topic that’s less examined than indulged…

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Review of Logan Lucky (2017)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Aug 2017

Logan Lucky is both a Robin Hood fantasy and a uniquely Soderberghian lark, an ensemble comedy that’s simultaneously effervescent and cerebral…

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Review of Mrs. Hyde (2018)

By James Lattimer (30) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Aug 2017

It's hard to keep up with all the competing elements that Mrs. Hyde throws into the mix…

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Review of Marjorie Prime (2017)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Aug 2017

Mapping the intersection between history and emotion, Michael Almereyda finds himself in Alain Resnais terrain…

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Review of The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Aug 2017

Because it so consistently fails to meld its comic sensibilities and love stories with its generic action premise into a seamless whole, The…

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Review of Crown Heights (2017)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2017

The film plays like a human-interest story in which all of the humanity has been gutted in favor of deadening narrative efficiency…

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Review of Gook (2017)

By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2017

Justin Chon fumbles the take on how his characters' anger fits into the greater landscape of a L.A. during the aftermath of the Rodney King beating…

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Review of 6 Days (2017)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2017

6 Days boils down the intricate relationship between Iran and the West into a tense standoff of conflicting ideals where the values and perspectives…

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Review of What Happened to Monday (2017)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2017

Tommy Wirkola’s film squanders an evocative premise in favor of rote gun-fu carnage…

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Review of Sweetie (1989)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Aug 2017

Sweetie’s brilliance stems from how Campion inventively explores the relationship between inanimate objects and personal memory, Sally Bongers’s…

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Review of The Glass Castle (2017)

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

As in Destin Daniel Cretton’s previous feature, Short Term 12, the oscillations between sociological horror and misty-eyed sentimentality…

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Review of Annabelle: Creation (2017)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Aug 2017

Like Lights out, David F. Sandberg's previous film, Annabelle: Creation is a haunted-house horror story that plays on our primeval fear of the dark…

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Review of The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017)

By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Aug 2017

Though it may clear the low bar set by the first film, The Nut Job 2 still suffers from many of the same problems…

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Review of The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Aug 2017

The film may not reimagine our sense of how the ties that bind bad men are rewritten in times of war, but it nonetheless gives a casually electric…

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Review of Naked (2017)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Aug 2017

Right from the very beginning of Rob’s cruel cycle that sees him repeatedly returning to the floor of that elevator every time the church…

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