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Review of Boy Erased (2018)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 12 Sep 2018

There's a clear evolution over time in the performance of Jared, which features the normally charismatic Hedges functioning within a very…

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Review of What They Had (2018)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 12 Sep 2018

What They Had manages to come out to something more than the sum of its imperfect parts…

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Review of Ben Is Back (2018)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 11 Sep 2018

Lucas Hedges provides a beating, aching heart at the center of Ben Is Back with his soulful performance, another reminder of why he is one…

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Review of Beautiful Boy (2018)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 10 Sep 2018

Health and happiness are both so near and so unattainable in Beautiful Boy…

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Review of Monsters and Men (2018)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 06 Sep 2018

Though elements of it peek through in the other characters, Zyrick represents the only persona through which Green fully realizes his…

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Review of Operation Finale (2018)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Aug 2018

The film never manages to reconcile the enormity of the Holocaust with how ordinary a bureaucrat Eichmann was…

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Review of Maine (2018)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 23 Aug 2018

Remarkably, Maine never feels like some kind of pointed rejoinder to the wilderness self-discovery narrative that serves as a popular fantasy…

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Review of Song of Back and Neck (2018)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 02 May 2018

Do we really need another sad middle-age white guy comedy…

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Review of To Dust (2019)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 25 Apr 2018

Röhrig and Broderick work remarkably well in tandem throughout To Dust, with the former providing the sincerity and the latter bringing some levity…

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Review of Disobedience (2018)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 24 Apr 2018

The stakes are high, yet Disobedience never slips into easy melodrama…

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Review of Back Roads (2019)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 23 Apr 2018

The emotions on display in Back Roads are not the type that can be buried and disposed of. They must be acknowledged and dealt with…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 06 Oct 2015

Despite filtering the horrors of a bygone era through an arcane narrative vehicle, The Witch still manages to scare us with its immediacy…

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Review of Son of Saul (2015)

By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 06 Oct 2015

Imagine the kinetic immediacy of Emmanuel Lubezki combined with the claustrophobic intimacy of Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc…

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