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It’s a shame that Angelina Jolie is relegated to playing by the Larraín rulebook. The post ‘Maria’ Review: Pablo Larraín’s Biopic Places La Callas at a Chilly Distance from Audiences appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The film is a strange case of the homage that outstrips what it’s meant to be imitating. The post ‘Daaaaaalí!’ Review: Quentin Dupieux’s Funny, Unpredictable Ode to the Spanish Surrealist appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Daisuke Miyazaki’s tale of young love is a little too country to be rock ‘n’ roll. The post ‘Plastic’ Review: What’s My Age Again? appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film seeks to embody a dizzying span of human experience. The post ‘April’ Review: A Matter of Life and Death appeared first on Slant Magazine.

It quickly becomes clear that Greg Jardin’s isn’t just here to dazzle us with visual trickery. The post ‘It’s What’s Inside’ Review: A Maximalist Black Comedy About Our Obsessions with Identity appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The particulars of time travel in the film give the whole thing a tactile quality. The post ‘Things Will Be Different’ Review: Sibling Bonds Are Tested in Fleet-Footed Time-Travel Thriller appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Ross’s remarkable film fashions mesmerizing, affecting poetry out of Whitehead’s prose. The post ‘Nickel Boys’ Review: RaMell Ross’s Intensely Subjective Colson Whitehead Adaptation appeared first on Slant Magazine.

This exuberant biopic is as hard to resist as it is to believe that it got made in the first place. The post ‘Better Man’ Review: Robbie Williams Goes Bananas in a “Take That” to Biopic Convention appeared first on...

The film is an effulgent love letter to ’80s kid cinema, laced with a quirky, Kiwi dryness. The post ‘Bookworm’ Review: A Charming Father-Daughter Adventure in the Wilds of New Zealand appeared first on Slant Magazine.

In the context of the trilogy, Youth (Homecoming) feels both standalone and summative. The post ‘Youth (Homecoming)’ Review: Wang Bing’s Sorrowful Coda to His Textile Worker Trilogy appeared first on Slant Magazine.