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1.5/4
|
67%
|
Good Neighbors (2011) |
"
The tone of the film is off-key from the beginning, a fact that's not helped by the presence of Speedman, onetime Felicity heartthrob."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
—
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83%
|
Trust () |
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 12, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
59%
|
Jig (2011) |
"
The documentary Jig presents a world that approaches child pageantry in its self-contained weirdness."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 15, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
70%
|
Beautiful Boy (2011) |
"
Its unmoored, oxygen-deprived atmosphere reflects the current mood of grief literature, inspired by Joan Didion's groundbreaking The Year of Magical Thinking."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2011
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—
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——
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The Happy Housewife (De gelukkige huisvrouw) (2010) |
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 28, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Spork (2011) |
"
Never feels authentically out-there because it still more or less toes the line of every teen comedy from Welcome to the Dollhouse to Mean Girls."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 27, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
14%
|
Hard Breakers (2011) |
"
The film might be the closest approximation to the gender inverse of an Apatow flick."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
The Conspirator (2011) |
"
The Conspirator is an über-genre movie, a hybrid of two classic Hollywood modes--the historical reenactment and the courtroom drama--that tries to satisfy the demands of both."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2011
|
|
.5/4
|
77%
|
Trust (2011) |
"
Characters are less characters than placards in a revved-up PSA about the Gen Y horrors of teen rape."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2011
|
|
—
|
82%
|
Trust (1991) |
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2011
|
|
|
95%
|
Mala Noche (Bad Night) (2007) |
"
White and other critics have accused the director of "race and class indifference," but Van Sant's approach has always been personal and deeply confessional, if not outwardly political. "
—
House Next Door
Posted Mar 4, 2011
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——
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The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966) |
"
It would be hard to believe that Gus Van Sant hadn't seen The Velvet Underground and Nico, Andy Warhol's landmark recording of an hour-long performance by the band, before he made Last Days."
—
House Next Door
Posted Mar 4, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Putty Hill (2011) |
"
As with the nod to skating culture, Porterfield reclaims cheesy pop-culture detritus to illuminate his characters' need for escape."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 17, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
0%
|
Dressed (2011) |
"
As movies about the fashion world go, Dressed isn't very fabulous. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
24%
|
The Dilemma (2011) |
"
Ron Howard movies inspire that rare kind of allergic reaction: They're so unremarkable they're actually frustrating. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 13, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
Gulliver's Travels (2010) |
"
Marketed as a hip, modern adaptation of a classic, the movie feels more like a Christmastime TV special projected in 3D."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 22, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
28%
|
Life as We Know It (2010) |
"
It's easy to become cynical about a certain brand of funny-sad familial comedies like Life as We Know It."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
50%
|
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) |
"
3D has jumped the shark. Again."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo (2010) |
"
Throughout, the film circles around the sociological significance of the rodeo."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 15, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
27%
|
Takers (2010) |
"
Remember when Paul Walker had a career, Matt Dillon had indie credibility, Jay Hernandez was just a cute face, and Chris Brown was an R&B singer without a rap sheet? "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 26, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
Lottery Ticket (2010) |
"
Essentially Trading Places by way of Next Friday, Lottery Ticket never rises above formula."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 19, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Smash His Camera (2010) |
"
The film refuses to pass judgment on the controversial photog, letting him do his own thing."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
63%
|
Extract (2009) |
"
Mike Judge doesn't sugarcoat his characters as anything more than slightly contemptible fratboys, a quality that makes his brand of comedy alternately liberating and frustrating."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 3, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
84%
|
The September Issue (2009) |
"
For the past year or so, Wintour's been on the media warpath to win back her image, and Cutler seems happy to oblige."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 27, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Casi Divas (Road to Fame) (2008) |
"
Full of enthusiasm but short on wit or self-awareness, Casi Divas is pretty weak as satire."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 20, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
45%
|
Fragments (Winged Creatures) (2008) |
"
Less a movie than a sociology thesis."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 4, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
61%
|
Eleven Minutes (2008) |
"
A movie for Project Runway obsessives only."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
15%
|
The Love Guru (2008) |
"
Under a new name and equally aggressive ethnic branding, Austin Powers is alive again."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
98%
|
Surfwise (2007) |
"
Surfwise tries to separate itself from the fray of political documentaries by not taking itself too seriously."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Refusenik (2008) |
"
Using title cards, interviews, and endless archival footage, Bialis is able to tie a very specific history to the course of 20th century upheaval."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2008
|
|
|
100%
|
The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge) (1956) |
"
Since Janus's barebones release of The Red Ballon comes with the 34-minute film and nothing more, highbrow parents might have to find other ways to entertain their kids for the day. Like, you know, Dora the Explorer."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge) (1956) |
"
The story of a boy and his toy, The Red Balloon is widely praised for its narrative and visual "purity," but not enough is said about the movie's delightful manipulation."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
86%
|
Meduzot (Jellyfish) (2008) |
"
Jellyfish exists in a no man's land, adrift in vague, waterlogged abstractions on which the filmmakers can hang their characters' collective baggage."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 25, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
89%
|
Fighting for Life (2008) |
"
Though it superficially deals with how military doctors work during a long and unpopular war, Terry Sanders's film more closely disentangles a specialized establishment in its own right."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 7, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
Bab'Aziz - The Prince That Contemplated His Soul (2008) |
"
As far as fable imports go, Bab'Aziz is a step up from the Disney-grade moralism of Milarepa, but it's even less memorable."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2008
|
|
.5/4
|
67%
|
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2008) |
"
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness is a movie every bit as cumbersome and trying as its title."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 2, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
87%
|
Liberty Kid (2008) |
"
Unanswered questions about Derrick's kids and Spanish-speaking mother abound, and their all-too-infrequent interactions point to a hard-knuckled realism about post-9/11 New York that begs to be seen."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 10, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
88%
|
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2007) |
"
The most dispassionate account of the Holocaust in the last 20 years."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 22, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
Flakes (2007) |
"
One look at Aaron Stanford's chain-smoking, long-haired musician in a Hanes t-shirt and you know Flakes wants so badly to be hip."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2007
|
|
1/4
|
67%
|
Naked Boys Singing (2007) |
"
Naked Boys Singing! is the biggest waste of d**k since Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 12, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
——
|
My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures () |
"
True to its title, My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures sees the world through its subject's childlike eyes."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
65%
|
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) |
"
The Jane Austen Book Club is pitched as The First Wives Club for coffeehouse intellectuals."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 16, 2007
|
|
1/4
|
38%
|
Milarepa (2007) |
"
Myths are more popular in the movies than ever, but unlike the Christian extravaganza of The Chronicles of Narnia, Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint won't be showing up on your kid's Netflix list."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
61%
|
Dans Paris (Inside Paris) (2007) |
"
Honoré's rambunctious filmmaking process is born truly in the moment."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 10, 2007
|
|
2.5/4
|
94%
|
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"
Greengrass's latest plops on the screen with lots of hi-fi energy but, strangely, very little feeling."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 31, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Blame It on Fidel (La Faute a Fidel) (2006) |
"
Gavras uses Anna's precocious reason to tackle a generation's idealism head-on."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2007
|
|
1/4
|
47%
|
Laura Smiles (2006) |
"
Laura Smiles teaches us that you can't escape misery, least of all in Jersey."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
58%
|
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"
Rescurrecting the Champ is a snooze."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
72%
|
Tekon Kinkurîto (Tekkonkinkreet) (2007) |
"
The movie is a collection of disparate anime parts that never really comes together."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2007
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