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Review of Welcome to Me (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Apr 2015

The film rejects a fawning (or even particularly detailed) account of mental illness in favor of a plunge into the deep end of a bottomless ego…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Mar 2015

Noah Baumbach lobs jokes with hectic editing and a Sturgesian velocity, but much of this cross-generational comedy is frantic and…

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Review of The Chinese Mayor (2015)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Mar 2015

Zhou Hao's film plays out like an episode of Parks and Recreation directed by the Maysles brothers…

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Review of The Hunting Ground (2015)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 2015

Kirby Dick's films don't go far enough in explaining how a culture of rape can pervade in vastly different institutions, but they're…

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Review of The Hunting Ground (2015)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 2015

Kirby Dick's films don't go far enough in explaining how a culture of rape can pervade in vastly different institutions, but they're…

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Review of Approaching the Elephant (2015)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Feb 2015

The film's 90 minutes are a disorienting cyclone of destructive incidents and propulsive energy…

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Review of Son of a Gun (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Jan 2015

The film has the requisite iconography of a crime thriller, but no investment in any of it…

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Review of A Most Violent Year (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Dec 2014

J.C. Chandor's fondness for situational irony is empowered by the spartan efficiency of his method, and that of most of his performers…

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Review of Happy Valley (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Nov 2014

Once the media caravan departs, the doc meanders, torn between its obligation to reportage and its interest in a town riven by America's…

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Review of The Homesman (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Nov 2014

If there's any ambiguity to be found in the film's prolonged last gasps, which reach for tragedy, but only sow more epistemic confusion,…

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Review of Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Oct 2014

In the wake of the ostentatious atmospherics summoned by the likes of Shutter Island and American Horror Story: Asylum, the film feels…

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Review of Annabelle (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Oct 2014

It's all a far cry from James Wan's The Conjuring, which embraced the thrill of the paranormal even as it respected its frazzled,…

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Review of The Equalizer (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Sep 2014

All this should build up to a moderately engaging battle of wits, but Richard Wenk's script has little interest in wit and no capacity for psychology…

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Review of Kelly & Cal (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Aug 2014

A romantic drama complicated by a stroller and a wheelchair, and its first mistake is in assuming some kind of equity between the two vehicles…

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Review of Into the Storm (2014)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2014

There are many instances of questionable logic in Into the Storm, but the most persistent is the film's unexplained assumption that…

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Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 17 Dec 2013

The miracle of Upstream Color is that a film so carefully and exquisitely composed can yield so many moments of open-ended cinematic rapture…

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Review of The Act of Killing (2012)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 16 Dec 2013

Oppenheimer demonstrates how easily the passive spectator can become an unlikely abettor, and the great cause of his film is to make his…

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Review of The Color Wheel (2011)

By Christopher Gray (138) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 13 Sep 2012

The Color Wheel requires a brand of empathy mainstream audiences are unaccustomed to, but rewards it with nearly revolutionary insight…

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