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Happening 2021
This is a very good film, but given the state of things, it’s difficult to write about in standard reviewspeak. To praise its effectiveness as “body horror” would seem to trivialize its subject matter, as would comparing it to similarly-themed works like 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days or Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Likewise, to criticize it for being a bit more polemic than character study would seem to miss the point. Essential viewing. Impossible to recommend. Check on your friends, especially those with wombs.
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The Burning 1981
The Burning apes the Friday the 13th formula so faithfully that it’s difficult not to compare the two. There are some fantastic kills, but the Meatballs of it all consumes so much of the runtime that its sense of tension only plays in fits and starts. If pressed, I’d probably rank it among the lower end of Friday’s Paramount era, which means I still had a pretty good time watching it.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Its visuals are massive, but its heart is absolutely (story of a girl) the biggest thing I’ve ever seen. Buy the ticket, take the ride, see you on the other side.
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House of Gucci 2021
Quite a confused movie, split evenly between a buttoned-down biopic and a potential camp classic. The actors perfectly illustrate this dichotomy: Gaga, Pacino, Leto, and Hayek absolutely understood the assignment, painting with the broadest possible brush at every turn, whereas the other principals’ dignified air seems at war with the inherent soap opera of it all. Driver, of whom I’m generally a huge fan, feels particularly miscast here, too naturally mild-mannered to sink his teeth into Maurizio’s aggressive side and…
