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Nick McCarthy

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Bridgend (2016) 81% 1.5/4 EDIT “Bridgend, with its dark-blue-hued cinematography and murky music, is all foreboding atmosphere.” – Slant Magazine May 1, 2016 Full Review Jessabelle (2014) 29% 1/4 EDIT “Rather than commit to exploring Jessabelle's existential crisis, the filmmakers opt to pile on the clichs straight until the rotten denouement.” – Slant Magazine Nov 5, 2014 Full Review Magical Universe (2013) 71% 2.5/4 EDIT “To varying degrees of success, it attempts to prominently display Al Carbee's creations, yet keeps undermining his art in favor of investigating his skewed relationship to everyday realities.” – Slant Magazine Oct 30, 2014 Full Review Two Night Stand (2014) 38% 1/4 EDIT “It's attempt at conveying a candid portrait of contemporary hookup culture and the dishonesty of online dating profiles, but the film's sentiments are all past their expiration date.” – Slant Magazine Sep 22, 2014 Full Review Rocks in My Pockets (2014) 100% 3/4 EDIT “This inventive animated feature about depression and familial roots suggests NPR's "The Moth" storytelling series by way of Persepolis, mixing mesmerizing memoir monologue with whimsical animation.” – Slant Magazine Sep 4, 2014 Full Review What If (2013) 73% 1.5/4 EDIT “Right up to its simplistic ending, the film is pleased to regurgitate the contrived tropes of the genre without ever honestly addressing the ethics of romantic boundaries.” – Slant Magazine Aug 3, 2014 Full Review Alive Inside (2014) 75% 2.5/4 EDIT “The doc is heartwarming, but it doesn't delve deeply into the backstories that inform the ailing patients' connection to the music that stirs their memories.” – Slant Magazine Jul 17, 2014 Full Review A Summer's Tale (1996) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “Despite its googly-eyed missive to the power of romance fueling confidence and comfort, A Summer's Tale is most salient when addressing the bonds of friendship.” – Slant Magazine Jun 20, 2014 Full Review Ivory Tower (2014) 84% 2.5/4 EDIT “The documentary is more interested in covering all its bases than making sure it fully has its foot on each base.” – Slant Magazine Jun 10, 2014 Full Review Zero Motivation (2014) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “Tayla Lavie's film misses the prime opportunity to remark on the triviality of war.” – Slant Magazine Apr 23, 2014 Full Review Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014) 81% 2/4 EDIT “What results is a lopsided, put-upon narrative of survival where humans, and not the animals themselves, are the ones celebrated.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2014 Full Review Finding Vivian Maier (2013) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “This is less a portrait of an artist as a young woman than a psychological evaluation of a slippery subject.” – Slant Magazine Mar 26, 2014 Full Review The Lunchbox (2013) 97% 3/4 EDIT “The patience in mercurially presenting the characters' backstories and desires is matched by the film's genuine curiosity about the healing power of sharing stories.” – Slant Magazine Feb 26, 2014 Full Review The New Black (2013) 85% 3/4 EDIT “It does little to break free of the conventional talking-head documentary format, but thoughtful in how it prizes dialogue over acrimony and one-sided rhetoric.” – Slant Magazine Feb 11, 2014 Full Review Cavemen (2013) 14% 1/4 EDIT “Cavemen is an apt title considering how the sensibility and maturity of the film's characters don't seem to have developed beyond primal, alpha-man impulses.” – Slant Magazine Feb 6, 2014 Full Review Breaking the Frame (2012) 2.5/4 EDIT “Director Marielle Nitoslawaska's experimental approach sometimes wanders down uncontextualized paths and obfuscates the subject with filmic affectations.” – Slant Magazine Jan 27, 2014 Full Review The Rocket (2013) 95% 3/4 EDIT “The particulars of Laos's historical conflicts are sometimes only obliquely confronted, but the torrid past of covered-up wars palpably echoes through the scarred yet majestic landscapes.” – Slant Magazine Jan 10, 2014 Full Review The Best Offer (2013) 56% 1/4 EDIT “It ascribes to the falsehood that a rarefied milieu inherently infuses a film with intelligence, as if inept execution can be covered up by pretty lensing.” – Slant Magazine Dec 28, 2013 Full Review The New Rijksmuseum, Part 2 (2013) 87% 3/4 EDIT “It most potently strikes the tone of an elegy, pensively observing that beneath the bickering in museum boardrooms lies a massive treasure trove of art history that's being kept from the public's eye.” – Slant Magazine Dec 18, 2013 Full Review Saving Mr. Banks (2013) 79% 1.5/4 EDIT “A tale of memory and redemption that does little to linger in the mind and even less to decry P.L. Travers's claim that Disney turns everything it touches into schmaltz.” – Slant Magazine Dec 6, 2013 Full Review The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman (2013) 25% 1.5/4 EDIT “An egregious entry into the pantheon of films about white Americans traveling to exotic lands in search of identity and soul-searching adventure.” – Slant Magazine Nov 12, 2013 Full Review Sal (2011) 50% 1.5/4 EDIT “It functions under the delusion that subtext will magically appear if you linger on a character long enough, and the significance of most of its scenes is nothing if not inscrutable.” – Slant Magazine Oct 30, 2013 Full Review Jealousy (2013) 73% 3/4 EDIT “Due to its rather pure and unburdened perspective of complex relations, it's a plausibly hand-me-down portrait accessed from the point of view of a young child.” – Slant Magazine Oct 7, 2013 Full Review When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013) 69% 3.5/4 EDIT “Corneliu Porumboiu's wry and cryptically titled film is both oblique and about obliqueness.” – Slant Magazine Oct 3, 2013 Full Review The Missing Picture (2013) 99% 3/4 EDIT “It contextualizes cinema not only as a form of magic (capable of transformative, elated power), but also of revolution.” – Slant Magazine Sep 26, 2013 Full Review
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