Sentences with phrase «films on slant»
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There's an amusing love triangle (certainly more involving than what was witnessed in the recent «Twilight» saga), commentary on waning humanism through tyrannical rule, and an unveiling of the supremely negative influences of politically slanted media, primarily as it defines celebrity — but it's all buried deep beneath basic adventures of wilderness survival that are curiously manipulated back into the script for a twist and return to the first film's plot.
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Slant notes the film is a «canny balance of nostalgia with hindsight» and «ends on a beautifully melancholic grace note.»
Ed Gonzales, Slant Magazine: Butler, whether sliding out of a car door to shoot at a pursuer or jumping from scaffolding and into a nearby building, is as fleet on his feet as Najafi is in his sculpting of the film's flurry of action.
Based on the 2009 book by Robert M. Edsel, the real - life story of the Monuments Men is practically tailor - made for the big screen; a unique slant on the typical WWII film that, at least on paper, appeared to be equal parts «Ocean's Eleven» and «Inglourious Basterds.»
At the very least, this film will give you a different slant on Banderas» «Puss in Boots.»
What I love most about Slant is that its film critics are wrong on nearly every film.
One of the highlights of this past summer occurred when I received an e-mail notification from Paul Brunick at Film Comment / Slant Magazine stating that this site was named one of the top film criticism blogs on the net.
His talents were most recently put on display in the Netflix film Okja, which arrived more than 10 years after his breakthrough film The Host, a creature feature with a now - familiar pro-environmentalism slant.
Based on the beloved novel by John Green, this film is so squarely slanted toward teen girls that it is likely to annoy everyone else.
Nonetheless, SLANT has some of the best film reviews available on the internet, and the act of reading the contributors» points of view, regardless of agreement, is a high interest of mine.
One more thing: Can you state your reasons on why you think Slant has the worst prose possible in film criticism today, instead of leaving these extreme criticisms half - baked?
Since I find Slant contrary even within itself (it's one of the few publications where you can read multiple, very different takes on the same film, most recently with the blu - ray review of Day of the Dead), I would never consider them a hive - mind.
I never thought I'd see the day when Slant Magazine would be the one critical outlet reviewing a film on artistic rather than (knee - jerk) political merit.