Author: Juan Barquin

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You’re Next (2011)

What Scream once did for the slasher, Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett have done for home invasion with You’re Next, an impressive and incredibly entertaining subversion of the subgenre.

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Canyons, The (2013)

The Canyons is a film that suffers from two immensely conflicting views: the sleek and sexy post-American Gigolo world of Schrader and the aggravatingly nihilistic and shallow world of Ellis.

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Now You See Me

By explaining everything and leaving nothing to the imagination, Now You See Me falls into dreadful and ridiculous predictability.

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V/H/S/2

This follow-up horror anthology is still flawed, but two of its shorts make it one worth checking out.

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Conjuring, The

James Wan delivers a seventies style haunted house and possession film that’s a step up from his last work and a nice addition to the genre.

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Spring Breakers

Harmony Korine’s neon fantasy world assaults the senses with repetition, booze, boobs, and dubstep, only to show his contempt for Spring Break culture.

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Stories We Tell

After delivering a gem like Take This Waltz, director Sarah Polley has taken her camera and flipped it on herself to explore her family.

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Purge, The (2013)

One of the least subtle and most aggravating home invasion films to come out in a very long time makes waste of everyone’s time.