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0/4
|
25%
|
Act of Valor (2012) |
"
The befuddled SEAL may not understand why they hate us, but the attitudes perpetuated by Act of Valor might begin to provide a clue."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
0/4
|
4%
|
Twelve (2010) |
"
Fifteen years after Larry Clark's controversial feature, the Kids still aren't all right."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2010
|
|
.5/4
|
0%
|
Generation Um... (2013) |
"
The levels of insight provided into the characters are exactly commensurate with any conceivable viewer's interest in learning more about these nonentities."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 27, 2013
|
|
.5/4
|
27%
|
21 And Over (2013) |
"
By the dictates of the boys-will-be-boys party genre, 21 and Over is so tame that it barely manages to even be offensive."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
.5/4
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
If you've ever seen Psycho, or even if you know anything at all about the film, Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock would like to congratulate you on your savvy. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012) |
"
It seems as if Craig Zobel wants to implicate the audience in these proceedings, but he doesn't have a very clear idea how to go about it. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 12, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
28%
|
Crazy Eyes (2012) |
"
While the male characters are certainly not presented as models of enlightened behavior, their antics and crises are indulged in a manner not extended to their female counterparts."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
56%
|
People Like Us (2012) |
"
This dry-as-dust enterprise bogs down in an almost total lack of energy and imagination that no amount of faux earnestness can overcome."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 24, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
44%
|
Brake (2012) |
"
Until its pair of ludicrous twist endings, which complicates its message and logistics in ways that make little sense, Gabe Torres's Brake plays like a more simplistic version of Buried tailored specifically to a hawkish right-wing crowd."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
27%
|
Project X (2012) |
"
Awesomeness seems to be the chief quality prized by both the film and its characters; all other considerations-like safety, property damage, and especially good taste-are secondary."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
50%
|
Rid of Me (2011) |
"
At once hopelessly amateurish and given to desperate assertions of auterist "virtuosity", the film seems as lost as its perpetually confused and gratingly childlike protagonist."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2011
|
|
.5/4
|
80%
|
Life in a Day (2011) |
"
In Kevin Macdonald's project, what ultimately unites mankind is its banality."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 24, 2011
|
|
.5/4
|
0%
|
A Love Affair of Sorts (2011) |
"
Billed as the first feature film to be shot on a flip camera, A Love Affair of Sorts looks it."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2011
|
|
0.5/4
|
0%
|
An Invisible Sign (2011) |
"
The film is a puzzling mix of sentiment, black humor, and loads and loads of nonsensical behavior."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 6, 2011
|
|
.5/4
|
33%
|
Exodus Fall (2011) |
"
A collation of pseudo-profound dialogue and cameos by compassionate strangers, Exodus Fall is a road movie in which, once out of Texas, nothing bad can ever happen to our children."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 17, 2011
|
|
.5/4
|
48%
|
Meet Monica Velour (2011) |
"
Meet Monica Velour is a cruel movie. It's also cruelly unfunny. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 3, 2011
|
|
.5/4
|
40%
|
HappyThankYouMorePlease (2011) |
"
Tony Hale's winning characterization of an improbably straightlaced suitor who woos the "quirky" Annie saves the movie from total disaster."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 27, 2011
|
|
.5/4
|
29%
|
Burning Palms (2011) |
"
Evinces enough hatred of mankind to make Todd Solondz look like a dedicated humanist."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 9, 2011
|
|
.5/4
|
47%
|
The A-Team (2010) |
"
It is, simply put, an ode to violence, but violence as imagined by 21st-century Hollywood."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 10, 2010
|
|
.5/4
|
79%
|
Mother and Child (2010) |
"
A two-hankie weepie for the family-values set, Rodrigo Garcia's latest sudser worships at the altar of motherhood, a state that the writer-director posits as something like the essence of womanhood."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2010
|
|
.5/4
|
62%
|
When You're Strange (2010) |
"
If there's anything the world surely doesn't need it's one more admiring regurgitation of the Jim Morrison mythos."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 5, 2010
|
|
.5/4
|
76%
|
The Horse Boy (2009) |
"
Some people's stories are so interesting that a book or a movie adaptation alone simply won't suffice. Sometimes both are needed. Apparently, Rupert Isaacson's is one of them."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2009
|
|
0.5/4
|
8%
|
Memorial Day (2008) |
"
To simply show bad behavior is not to adequately critique it."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 6, 2009
|
|
.5/4
|
29%
|
Forever Strong (2008) |
"
Adhering to the belief that action scenes are more thrilling when you can't tell what the hell is going on, the director gives us just the "highlights.""
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2008
|
|
.5/4
|
39%
|
Henry Poole Is Here (2008) |
"
In the world of Henry Poole Is Here miracles exist, faith is the wisest operating principle and intelligent thought is everywhere discouraged."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 13, 2008
|
|
1/5
|
51%
|
The Three Stooges (2012) |
"
The quicker it's forgotten, the better."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
18%
|
$upercapitalist (2012) |
"
Lensed with a tiresome gloss meant to mimic the seduction of the Asian metropolitan high life and filled with clumsily didactic talking points and inadequate performances ..."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 7, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
25%
|
Inside Out (2011) |
"
As bloated as its star's pectoral muscles and as lastingly resonant as any random episode of SmackDown."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Sep 7, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Seven Days In Utopia (2011) |
"
If any film ever needed a mulligan...."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 31, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
92%
|
Rebirth (2011) |
"
For a film whose title evokes new beginnings, this portrait of five people devastated by the 2001 terrorist attacks treads dangerously close to necrophilia."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 31, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
50%
|
Jolene (2010) |
"
One minute a guy's making Jolene patently false promises, the next she's getting sodomized on her wedding night."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Oct 27, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
——
|
A Green Story () |
"
Writer-director Nika Agiashvili buys into the concept of the American dream with the zeal of a true believer."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
20%
|
Girls Against Boys (2013) |
"
Essentially a horror movie in which the source of the horror shifts from capital-M men to crazed lesbianism."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 27, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
16%
|
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) |
"
The film speeds ahead with almost gleeful disinterest in dealing with the narrative challenges it sets up before resolving them in the most perfunctory ways"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 9, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
45%
|
The Details (2012) |
"
The Details is as smug and self-satisfied as its privileged lead character. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 28, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
8%
|
The Babymakers (2012) |
"
A safe, laugh-free exercise that gets to have its fun, such as it is, because it's all in the service of the most conservative notions of domestic normality."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 29, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
76%
|
The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012) |
"
In Jay and Mark Duplass's film, the fragile middle-aged male ego is indulged, massaged, and, finally, critiqued. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
34%
|
Lola Versus (2012) |
"
A year in the life of a young woman unhappy in love and uncertain in career, Lola Versus could easily be faulted for the narrowness of its worldview."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
18%
|
For Greater Glory (2012) |
"
The film is awash in blandly brown-toned cinematography, action scenes more violent than rousing, and a whole host of bathetic subplots."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 27, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
22%
|
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
It's the inevitability and uniformity of the film's attitude--as well as the desperately strained and unfunny way in which it puts it across--that's bothersome."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
4%
|
A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012) |
"
Unsurprisingly for a film detailing terminal disease, this is a largely solemn affair, often verging on morbidity in its elongated death watch."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
45%
|
Albatross (2012) |
"
Yes, the title of Albatross is a metaphor. In fact, the eponymous bird shows up not as a figurative chokehold around the neck of simply one character, but at least three."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
5%
|
Beneath The Darkness (2012) |
"
Overly expository dialogue abounds, as do questionable filmmaking choices and plenty of stupidly unconvincing actions taken on the part of the film's characters."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
45%
|
My Piece of the Pie (2011) |
"
Beyond the silliness of the heroine's action, there's little to glom on to here of any significance."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 4, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
74%
|
The Lie (2011) |
"
A film about accountability that repeatedly absolves its lead character of the need to have any."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
94%
|
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) |
"
Kevin Clash fails to hold the screen as either a telegenic presence or as someone whose story is worthy of 76 minutes of anyone's time. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
82%
|
The Way (2011) |
"
There's little in The Way that doesn't succumb to platitudinous conceptions of spirituality or lowest-common-denominator filmmaking."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
43%
|
Berlin 36 (2011) |
"
Kaspar Heidelbach's Berlin 36 may hold the dubious distinction of being the most tasteful movie to deal with Nazi Germany yet."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
76%
|
The Help (2011) |
"
High school creative-writing-class ironies of all kinds abound in The Help."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 9, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
33%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) |
"
There's nothing strange or in any way extraordinary about this dim-witted bore."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 16, 2011
|
77%
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