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Movie Reviews by Steve Macfarlane - Page 3 of 7

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Review of Carol (1974)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Oct 2015

The film dares its viewers to consider that--for a couple of hours, at least--even when a thing seems too good to be true, it might not be…

Review of Les Cowboys (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Sep 2015

Never content to suffice as a mediocre thriller, Les Cowboys is a wellspring of embarrassment for all parties involved…

Review of Straight Outta Compton (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2015

It's most towering accomplishment are its set pieces, which manage to be brash, exhilarating, and even occasionally moving…

Review of Irrational Man (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2015

Woody Allen and Joaquin Phoenix's collaboration on Irrational Man's antihero is the closest the film gets to a saving grace…

Review of 3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Jun 2015

A barbed inquiry into this particular notion of self-defense, enabled by the quotidian racism state and perpetuated de jure by the state…

Review of Eden (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jun 2015

Every substrata of music geekdom deserves a period piece as intimate as Eden, Mia Hansen-Løve's swan song for the golden era of French house music…

Review of Eden (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jun 2015

Every substrata of music geekdom deserves a period piece as intimate as Eden, Mia Hansen-Løve's swan song for the golden era of French house music…

Review of Jurassic World (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Jun 2015

Jurassic World can't tell whether it wants to be junk food or not, lovingly poking fun at some Hollywood tropes while shamelessly indulging others…

Review of Survivor (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 May 2015

This is the kind of filmmaking that gets touted as workmanlike when it's really straight-laced to the point of tepidness…

Review of Spy (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 May 2015

It's the sustained, full-bodied mania of Melissa McCarthy's performance that anchors the film's many winning blind-alley gags…

Review of The Connection (1961)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 May 2015

The film feels utterly infatuated by the cop/crook dividing line long-since drawn, if not flogged, by Michael Mann…

Review of The Connection (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 May 2015

The film feels utterly infatuated by the cop/crook dividing line long-since drawn, if not flogged, by Michael Mann…

Review of Playing It Cool (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 May 2015

As characters endlessly digress on the differences between rom-coms and real life, the film evinces a schizophrenic relationship with its…

Review of Furious 7 (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Mar 2015

The film lays bare that the franchise's most radical asset is also its most conservative: an overriding emphasis on, above all else, the…

Review of The Tribe (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Mar 2015

The film is more interested in performance and symbolism than in the meaning of its characters' words or their substitutive gestures…

Review of The Tribe (2016)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Mar 2015

The film is more interested in performance and symbolism than in the meaning of its characters' words or their substitutive gestures…

Review of The Humbling (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Jan 2015

Philip Roth's original ending is cranked up to 11, flattening the more interesting contours of Al Pacino's performance into a martyr's…

Review of The Gambler (1974)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Dec 2014

The filmmakers delve into a fantasyland of luxe coastal casinos and neon-lit bathhouses--as shrug-worthy a stab at picturing the…

Review of The Gambler (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Dec 2014

The filmmakers delve into a fantasyland of luxe coastal casinos and neon-lit bathhouses--as shrug-worthy a stab at picturing the…

Review of Salma (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Dec 2014

What will make the film essential for future generations isn't mere flashpoint topicality, but the way it aligns an old struggle with a current one…

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