Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine is a digital publication based in the United States that offers reviews on a wide range of entertainment, including movies, music, television shows, DVDs, theater productions, and video games. Additionally, it includes interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The website also provides coverage of several film festivals, such as the New York Film Festival.

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A Hypnotic Portrait of a Blood Sport

4 days ago | slantmagazine.com | William Repass

Albert Serra’s first nonfiction film, Afternoons of Solitude, centers on Peruvian matador Andrés Roca Rey. Throughout, Serra’s approach involves not so much conveying information or telling a story as inducing a poetic trance. The film opens with a pair of arresting long takes, reflecting the two opponents that a torero faces in the “afternoon” of a traditional corrida. In each, a different bull looks into the camera, shrouded in a purgatorial or primaeval dusk.
The Milestone Cinematheque

4 days ago | slantmagazine.com | Jake Cole

Charles Burnett’s little-seen 1999 dramedy The Annihilation of Fish is a curious outlier in the filmography of a director best known for his lyrical realism and interest in the ways that people’s characters are informed by their surroundings and history.
Eva Victor on Finding Joy in Control While Making 'Sorry, Baby'

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Marshall Shaffer

“Something pretty bad happened to me,” Eva Victor’s Agnes confesses late into Sorry, Baby. She makes this admission to John Carroll Lynch’s Pete, a stranger who helps her calm down from a roadside panic attack. Among other things, Agnes’s moment of openness elucidates Victor’s radical handling of trauma across the film.
White-Knuckle Fun

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Mitchell Demorest

Despite its title, the most exciting part of Mario Kart World isn’t its open world, but its blistering new Knockout Tour mode. Twenty-four racers rocket nonstop through six tracks, while at each new checkpoint the field is whittled down and the four last karts are eliminated. The structure obviously borrows heavily from the battle royale genre, and it suits the Mario Kart formula well.
Sarah Friedland and Kathleen Chalfant on 'Familiar Touch'

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Marshall Shaffer

Sarah Friedland often describes her feature directorial debut, Familiar Touch, as a “coming-of-old-age story.” That clever turn of phrase is where the cuteness ends with her treatment of Kathleen Chalfant’s Ruth as the character transitions into assisted living for dementia care. Senescence shares more with adolescence than a mere passage of years, as her carefully crafted work demonstrates with sincerity rather than detached irony.
Princes of the Universe

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Justin Clark

There’s a line in Interstellar that’s become something of an ill omen: “We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now, we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.” Because even though films continue to lead us into space, it’s rare that you get one like Pixar’s Elio where characters think of the cosmos in terms of infinite possibility and connection rather than a place where landmark-destroying alien threats come from.
Fueled by Old-School Filmmaking Swagger

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Jake Cole

Narratively, F1: The Movie sets us on the well-worn road of so many sports movies. Here, a rookie racer, Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), has plenty of raw talent but none of the experience to wield it properly, prompting a has-been, Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), to come out of a decades-long retirement from Formula One racing in order to show the kid the ropes.
An FPS Dud Set in the 'Control' Universe

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Aaron Riccio

Have you played Control? If you haven’t, don’t expect co-operative first-person shooter FBC: Firebreak to tell you that the Federal Bureau of Control uses the Oldest House, the setting of this game, to contain and experiment on paranatural objects. Or that the Hiss are resonant forces that have breached the building and threaten to spill out into the outside world.
The Theater Kids Aren't All Right

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Justin Clark

Jon S. Baird’s family dramedy Everything’s Going to Be Great makes an impassioned plea to hopeless optimists everywhere to love and care for anyone with a wild dream—the people who know who they are and will do anything to find the place where they can be just that. That’s lovely and heartwarming if you’re making The Muppet Movie and the majority of your cast consists of giddily self-aware felt misfits buoying those emotions.
An Eerie Found-Footage Nightmare

2 weeks ago | slantmagazine.com | Justin Clark

A burgeoning YouTuber named Lucas Page (William Magnusen) finds a camcorder tape with his name on it in his parents’ house. The tape shows him, as a child, sleeping until two men dressed in black walk into his room, wake him, place something in his mouth, then walk out. Lucas has no memory of this ever taking place.