The Wanting Mare (2020)
80%
3/4
“It's as if Nicholas Ashe Bateman is commenting on a distinctly American suburban malaise, using a fictional place, digitally made, to get at a real, painful truth about being stuck in a place you didn't choose, amid circumstances you didn't create.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 4, 2021
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Synchronic (2019)
78%
2/4
“About a drug that sends its users back in time for seven minutes, the film holds your hand and walks you through its chronology mazes.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 20, 2020
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Antebellum (2020)
31%
3/4
“This is film that employs imaginative twists to illuminate the racism that's entrenched in American history and society.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 9, 2020
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The Beach House (2019)
81%
2/4
“The character drama becomes afterthought as it's superseded by action.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 6, 2020
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All Summers End (2017)
20%
1/4
“This dippy chronicle of one consequential summer trades not in a nostalgia born of genuine lived experience, but of cinematic clichés.” –
Slant Magazine
May 12, 2020
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Vivarium (2020)
73%
2/4
“This a parable about adulthood boasts deeply cynical takes on home, community, and childrearing.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 21, 2020
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The Hunt (2020)
57%
2/4
“The film was almost canceled for being too partisan, so it's ironic to discover that it's practically apolitical.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 11, 2020
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The Lodge (2019)
75%
2.5/4
“t's best appreciated not with the parts of your brain responsible for reason and judgment, but in the unthinking terror centers, where the film's style of God-fearing fanaticism also resides.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 31, 2020
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I See You (2019)
73%
3/4
“The film's tone is extremely eerie, with creeping camera movements, striking imagery, abrupt edits, and a delicately sinister score.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 29, 2019
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Trick (2019)
38%
0/4
“Patrick Lussier's film is an incompetent, nihilistic exercise in gore and pseudophilosophy.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 14, 2019
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It: Chapter Two (2019)
62%
“The film argues we're stronger and better when we're home, building communities that can oppress the oppressors and build up so-called "losers."” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 5, 2019
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Don't Let Go (2019)
42%
2/4
“Would that Jacob Estes had kept the particulars of his murder mystery as intricate as the sci-fi of his main characters' communion.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 30, 2019
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
78%
2.5/4
“Once it gets past what feels like submission to genre demands, the drama reaffirms its focus on the central themes.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 8, 2019
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The Art of Self-Defense (2019)
83%
2/4
“Riley Steans is careful to vindicate karate itself, which might please its admirers but leave everyone else feeling indifferent.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 9, 2019
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Ma (2019)
55%
1/4
“In the end, the filmmakers settle for stigmatizing victimhood, abusing Sue Ann almost as much as her former tormentors.” –
Slant Magazine
May 29, 2019
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Us (2019)
93%
3.5/4
“Jordan Peele's follow-up to Get Out unnervingly speaks to the issues affecting a divided nation.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 20, 2019
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Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
72%
3/4
“Christopher Landon's heady and entertaining sequel is a multiverse murder mystery rooted in experimental physics.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 13, 2019
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The Prodigy (2019)
44%
2/4
“The filmmakers fail to realize that the darkest horror here doesn't lie in the triumph of true evil, but in seeing how far a regular family will go to protect itself before doing the right and necessary thing.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 6, 2019
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The Vanishing (2018)
84%
3/4
“The Vanishing seems truly troubled by its action violence in a way that many similar thrillers aren't.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 30, 2018
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Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
88%
3/4
“When Ralph Breaks the Internet ignores the glittering marvels of the internet and focuses on the rapport between its two leads, it's deeply moving.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 14, 2018
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Apostle (2018)
79%
2/4
“The film's victims are simply pawns in a super-gory bacchanal, which is aesthetically striking but emotionally dull.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 11, 2018
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Lizzie (2018)
66%
3/4
“The film moves evenly toward a conclusion that feels as inevitable as it does inescapable, while providing a plausible framework for the still-mysterious true crime.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 12, 2018
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Peppermint (2018)
13%
1/4
“If much of Pierre Morel's work to this point scanned as tongue-in-cheek, this one feels like a raspberry.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 6, 2018
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Hot Summer Nights (2017)
46%
1/4
“Like the teenagers at its center, Hot Summer Nights tries too hard to look cooler than it ever could be.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 20, 2018
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Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
60%
3/4
“The film is preposterously conceived, but writer-director Stephen Susco so tightly, excitingly executes it that you hardly notice.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 14, 2018
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