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Review of Selma (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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Review of Miss Julie (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Dec 2014

The film is no tearjerker, but it makes the stage play's hidebound, soul-baring pleasures mesmerizing on screen, and without copping to reductivism…

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Review of Rosewater (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Nov 2014

It shrugs off the bigger questions about Iranian politics its first half appears to raise, falling back instead on a gestalt of the…

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Review of Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Oct 2014

It's hard to tell if the film is hampered or helped by the performances of its three stars, because it's so amateurishly written and…

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Review of Laggies (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Oct 2014

To Keira Knightley's credit, she's all too willing to undercut her pretty-girl reputation by looking and acting a fool for Lynn Shelton's camera…

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Review of Camp X-Ray (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Oct 2014

Peter Sattler's film feels quintessentially Sundance: an expensively mounted treatise on important issues that's terrified to dig in…

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Review of Listen Up Philip (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Oct 2014

By putting so much weight on his characters' speech, Alex Ross Perry's is an approach with honestly few contemporaries in American independent film…

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Review of Left Behind (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Oct 2014

Left Behind is one of those films so deeply, fundamentally terrible that it feels unwittingly high-concept…

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Review of Eden (2015)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2014

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…

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Review of Eden (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Sep 2014

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…

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Review of Nas: Time Is Illmatic (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Sep 2014

While the trivia value may feel tremendous, only One9's interviews with Nas, his father, Olu Dara, and his brother, Jungle, manage to make…

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Review of Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2014

Opting for scenes that tend to be fragmented, flawed snippets from a much bigger story, the film exudes a bizarre confidence in not trying…

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Review of Maps to the Stars (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2014

For these fractured family units, incest seems the natural endgame of a merit system based exclusively on pernicious nepotism and…

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Review of Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2014

It culminates in a weepy climax that verifies its status as a proud hunk of propaganda from America's massive self-help industry…

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Review of Last Days in Vietnam (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Sep 2014

For American viewers who don't know, the doc will be a worthy footnote to a long bout of deliberate cultural amnesia, but it's too telling…

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Review of Life of Crime (2013)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Aug 2014

Down to its too-crisp rubber Nixon masks, Daniel Schechter's film revels in obnoxiously self-aware period detail…

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Review of Level Five (1997)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Aug 2014

Level Five pictorializes the cruel moment when curiosity encounters tragedy, and the all-too-human abandonment of interest that can follows…

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Review of Web Junkie (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 2014

Without a frame of footage nor a single interview presented from outside the camp, the documentary shows a capitalist nightmare that…

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Review of Affluenza (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Jul 2014

The film is like an episode of Gossip Girl that's mistaken itself for one of the great satires by Evelyn Waugh…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jul 2014

This is a summer blockbuster contingent on grand bargains, tactical retreats, and a ferocious, inevitable shock-and-awe campaign…

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