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Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 May 2016

For Assayas, the film represents a holding pattern similar to the one that Kristen Stewart's character can't escape from…

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Review of Loving (2016)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 May 2016

Loving finds little grooves of humanity to explore in its characters, and in its milieu, in between expected plot beats…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 May 2016

There's a quietly revelatory virtue to Jarmusch's film in its resistance to disturb its subject's life, to adhere to any typical…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 May 2016

At maybe half or a quarter of the length, American Honey might've gotten by on this surface-level vision…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 May 2016

The issue with X-Men: Apocalypse is that Bryan Singer suggests so many possible directions to go in and still chooses the least interesting one…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Apr 2016

Jon Favreau draws heavily on his film's animated predecessor for plot, characterizations, and more, but doesn't know how to fit these…

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Review of The Jungle Book (1994)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Apr 2016

Jon Favreau draws heavily on his film's animated predecessor for plot, characterizations, and more, but doesn't know how to fit these…

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Review of The Jungle Book (1967)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Apr 2016

Jon Favreau draws heavily on his film's animated predecessor for plot, characterizations, and more, but doesn't know how to fit these…

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Review of Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jan 2016

It finds a benefit in its genre affiliation, evenly distributing its action in quick bursts of fluidly animated fight choreography…

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Review of Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Jan 2016

Donnie Yen's performance is so good that it's a shame Wilson Yip's films have never strived to be more than briskly entertaining hagiography…

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Review of Ip Man 3 (2015)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Jan 2016

Donnie Yen's performance is so good that it's a shame Wilson Yip's films have never strived to be more than briskly entertaining hagiography…

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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Dec 2015

It exists less as a meaningful extension of its world than as a fan-service deployment device…

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Review of Chi-Raq (2015)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Dec 2015

A Spike Lee joint in the urgent sociopolitical register of Radio Raheem's boombox—a call to arms that's also a call to disarm…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Nov 2015

Throughout, director Justin Kurzel's stagey pretensions clash with each of his aesthetic choices…

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