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Slant Magazine is an American online publication founded in 2001 that covers movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games. It also features interviews with actors, directors, and musicians, and covers film festivals including the New York Film Festival.
On the 21st of January 2010, Slant Magazine relaunched and absorbed The House Next Door, an entertainment blog founded by Matt Zoller Seitz. The blog had been edited by Keith Uhlich, a former Time Out New York film critic, who held that role until 2012.
Matt Zoller Seitz is a writer who previously contributed to The New York Times and the New York Press. He founded The House Next Door, the entertainment blog that Slant Magazine absorbed when it relaunched on the 21st of January 2010.
Ed Gonzalez's review of the 2005 film Chaos drew national attention when Roger Ebert quoted it in his Chicago Sun-Times review. The New York Press also quoted Slant critic Keith Uhlich in a review of The Island, and Village Voice critic Nathan Lee publicly praised Gonzalez's political and pop culture focus.
Slant Magazine uses a four-star rating system for films and television programs, and a five-star system for albums, DVDs, and video games.
A. O. Scott of The New York Times described Slant's reviews as "passionate and often prickly". KillerStartups.com called it "one of the most influential online sources of news, comment, opinion and controversy in the world of indie, pop and mainstream entertainment." MovieMaker listed its blog among the 50 Best Blogs for Moviemakers in January 2010.