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David Lee Dallas

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Tracks (2013) 83% 2.5/4 EDIT “The feminist bent of Robyn's quest nicely shadows the film without ever being stated aloud.” – Slant Magazine Sep 15, 2014 Full Review The Skeleton Twins (2014) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Craig Johnson's film is ultimately most interested in what its jokes are implying or obscuring about the jokesters themselves.” – Slant Magazine Sep 8, 2014 Full Review Frontera (2013) 54% 2.5/4 EDIT “By turns abrasive and stately, sermonic and impartial, plot-heavy and meandering, often within seconds of each other.” – Slant Magazine Sep 1, 2014 Full Review See You Next Tuesday (2013) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film is uproariously funny, but its laughs don't come with an aftertaste of cynicism so much as they are the aftertaste of cynicism.” – Slant Magazine Aug 17, 2014 Full Review The Giver (2014) 34% 1.5/4 EDIT “The internal crisis of its protagonist amounts to the flicking of an on/off switch rather than the ebb and flow of a consciousness being born.” – Slant Magazine Aug 14, 2014 Full Review Moebius (2013) 79% 3/4 EDIT “A kind of silent opera in which the actors' precise facial emoting and a muscular editing rhythm create a melodrama by turns horrific and hilarious.” – Slant Magazine Aug 11, 2014 Full Review About Alex (2014) 46% 1.5/4 EDIT “However self-aware the film may be, its characters and moods and conflicts are too over-determined and familiar to linger in the memory very long after the credits roll.” – Slant Magazine Aug 4, 2014 Full Review Magic in the Moonlight (2014) 52% 2/4 EDIT “A film of obvious characterizations and even more obvious plot machinations that render its moment-to-moment charms moot.” – Slant Magazine Jul 21, 2014 Full Review I Origins (2014) 51% 2/4 EDIT “It treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to "solve" existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.” – Slant Magazine Jul 14, 2014 Full Review Made in America (2013) 50% 2/4 EDIT “What could have been a spirited dissection of Jay-Z's optimistic enterprise is instead merely an advertisement for it.” – Slant Magazine Jul 7, 2014 Full Review Tammy (2014) 24% 1.5/4 EDIT “Ben Falcone's film is an almost plotless doodle, with low stakes made even lower thanks to the bratty passivity of its titular antiheroine.” – Slant Magazine Jul 1, 2014 Full Review Begin Again (2013) 83% 3/4 EDIT “It's a film that lives in the high and not in the comedown, even though its characters are often stalled and wallowing.” – Slant Magazine Jun 23, 2014 Full Review The Last Sentence (2012) 74% 2.5/4 EDIT “Though ambitiously busy, the film is also self-sabotaging and stagnant, showcasing its main character's struggles without interpreting them into a cohesive thesis.” – Slant Magazine Jun 16, 2014 Full Review Hellion (2014) 58% 2/4 EDIT “Both film and protagonist are troubled works in progress that shuffle and meander and frequently falter, but occasionally sing.” – Slant Magazine Jun 9, 2014 Full Review The Fault in Our Stars (2014) 81% 2/4 EDIT “It takes few chances, frequently using sass as a smokescreen, hiding what's unoriginal and cheaply sentimental about this story behind a veil of witticisms about oblivion and "cancer perks."” – Slant Magazine Jun 4, 2014 Full Review Young & Beautiful (2013) 73% 3/4 EDIT “The film's increasingly unnerving story mostly unfolds with minimal flair, intensely focused as it is on its steely and enigmatic protagonist.” – Slant Magazine Apr 21, 2014 Full Review Authors Anonymous (2014) 8% 1/4 EDIT “It takes the easiest approach to every scene, haphazardly juggling different tones without integrating them into a cohesive and consistent thematic identity.” – Slant Magazine Apr 14, 2014 Full Review Joe (2013) 87% 3/4 EDIT “Director David Gordon Green finds a balance between symbolism and realism in his storytelling that allows the film to be many things at once.” – Slant Magazine Apr 6, 2014 Full Review Goodbye World (2013) 28% 2/4 EDIT “The tetchy band of thirtysomethings' interpersonal problems are infinitely less compelling than the mysterious and original global disaster the filmmakers have devised.” – Slant Magazine Mar 31, 2014 Full Review Breathe In (2013) 56% 1/4 EDIT “Seemingly high-brow because it's so low-key, but underneath that veneer is an inert, thinly plotted melodrama premised on trite characterizations that would be offensive if they weren't so absurd.” – Slant Magazine Mar 24, 2014 Full Review The Art of the Steal (2013) 46% 2/4 EDIT “An energetic but paper-thin genre exercise, filled with pleasant riffs on the standard heist flick, but ultimately lacking in payoff.” – Slant Magazine Mar 11, 2014 Full Review Therese (2013) 41% 1/4 EDIT “A broad, crude mutilation of Emile Zola's noirish romance Thrse Raquin that prioritizes heavy petting over plot.” – Slant Magazine Feb 17, 2014 Full Review Adult World (2013) 53% 2/4 EDIT “The title of Scott Coffey's new film is a pretty obvious double entendre, but it does efficiently convey the good intentions behind this scattershot production.” – Slant Magazine Feb 10, 2014 Full Review A Field in England (2013) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Ben Wheatley's film is a reckless combination of period piece, war drama, broad comedy, psychedelic fever dream, and occult horror-scape.” – Slant Magazine Feb 3, 2014 Full Review Open Grave (2013) 19% 1.5/4 EDIT “Individual moments linger, but the film is merely a rough draft of a thriller.” – Slant Magazine Dec 29, 2013 Full Review
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