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  You Won't Be Alone 2022

  ★★★ Watched by Adam Nayman 22 May 2022

  The inverse of LAMB - the other Noomi Rapace folk horror thing from last year. That movie was nicely shaped and pressurized and pretty stupid in the end, to the point that the ending only works as a joke on the idea of endings; this one’s repetitive and even boring in its studied, artful, elliptical way,  but increasingly poignant and humane as it goes along. If it’s all a bit grasping and pretentious, it’s not stupid. It’s also not “elevated”…

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  Above Suspicion 1995

  ★★½ Watched by Adam Nayman 05 May 2022

  “Doing it:” the movie

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  Titane 2021

  ★★½ Watched by Adam Nayman 31 Aug 2007 48

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I’ve been trying to put my finger on what bugs me so much about this movie, and sometimes I think it’s as simple as recognizing how hard its director - the very savvy and impressively successful Julia Ducornau - is *trying* to bug me: me, you, and everyone we know, and because Titane won the Palme, everyone you know is going to see it and be obliged to have an opinion on its self-consciously provocative contents, and maybe also on…

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  Soul 2020

  ★★½ Watched by Adam Nayman 28 Dec 2020 16

  Inside Out Llewyn Davis