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  • We Are the Best!

    ★★★★½

  • The Green Knight

    ★★½

  • Sweat

    ★★★½

  • The Big Sleep

    ★★★★

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  • The Green Knight

    The Green Knight

    ★★½

    A refreshingly unconventional film that failed to really cast a spell on me. I think I wanted more of...something, either for it to lean way harder into mist-shrouded pagan mystery or for some sparks of Terry Gilliam-esque fun or something.

  • Sweat

    Sweat

    ★★★½

    An engaging and honest film about the cost of being vulnerable and human on social media when you're a woman and social media is also where you work. The way people can assume a closeness and intimacy that isn't theirs to assume. The way the threat of sexual violence is never far away. Magdalena Kolesnik's lead performance as fitness influencer Sylwie is excellent. She really lets you see both how much work Sylwie puts into her carefully constructed online persona and the real person sometimes struggling under the weight of that performance. It's on MUBI as of this writing, I recommend it.

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  • Pig

    Pig

    ★★★½

    Definitely seems like it's going down the John Wick road for a while--especially with a violent scene that takes place in the most hidden, secret depths of Portland's cuisine scene--but it's not the same kind of film. It's something stranger and more unexpected. It's similarly a story about a grief-stricken man (and yes, one could reasonably say that we have too many of those) but his weapon in what could be called the film's final battle is...well, it's not violence.…

  • Manhunter

    Manhunter

    ★★★★★

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

    It is, for me, one of the most effective opening shots in movies: a POV, we’re ascending stairs in a home. It’s dark. A bed. A couple sleeping. A flashlight beam shines on the woman. Slowly, very slowly, she is brought to wakefulness by the glaring beam and looks at us. We know what happens next, we don’t need to see it. But we will see the staircase again, the bedroom, the house, one of a few now-empty houses Will…