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Throughout, the film discordantly slides between farce, satire, and murder mystery. The post ‘Eden’ Review: Ron Howard’s Account of the Galapagos Affair Is a Ridiculous Shambles appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Behind the violence and gore, Nobody 2 only offers the skeleton of a narrative. The post ‘Nobody 2’ Review: Bob Odenkirk’s Assassin Will Satisfy Lovers of Dad Jokes appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The film’s tableaux are impressionistic in ways that recall Claude Monet’s plein air landscapes. The post ‘Dry Leaf’ Review: Alexandre Koberidze Challenges Us to Make the Invisible Visible appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The film is a ghostly travelogue through a land ravaged by war and natural disaster. The post ‘In the Land of Arto’ Review: A Sensitive Portrait of a Woman Confronting a Nation in Pain appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The more the film diverges from Kurosawa’s, the more confident and distinguished it becomes. The post ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Spike Lee’s Virtuosic Reimagining of a Neo-Noir Classic appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The film is perhaps Joachim Trier’s most mature and emotionally complex work to date. The post ‘Sentimental Value’ Review: An Affecting Tale of Intergenerational Family Conflict appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Chuck Russell is certainly committed to making an old-school, effects-laden genre thrill ride. The post ‘Witchboard’ Review: Spirited Direction Almost Dispels the Curse of Insipid Material appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The film recalls the themes of Rebecca and the temporal displacements of Alain Resnais’s work. The post ‘Went Up the Hill’ Review: Samuel Van Grinsven’s Transfixing, Sensorial Ghost Story appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The overriding suspense here is largely created by watching truth become negotiable. The post ‘The Knife’ Review: Nnamdi Asomugha’s Thriller About the Slipperiness of Truth appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The film is mostly memorable for its depiction of a city gradually hollowing itself out. The post ‘White Snail’ Review: In Search of Romance in the Shadow of the Russia-Ukraine War appeared first on Slant Magazine.