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Cold War 2018

★★★★½ Rewatched 31 May 2023

As painful as it is to read my old reviews, it’s really fun to engage with my former self. 2018’s budding cinephile cozyry didn’t have the aptitude to understand the full scope of Cold War at the time, but the journey over the years helped form the way I see this and other films today. Previously, I had thought the music was just too outside of my taste to enjoy, but it’s undeniably the strongest attribute Pawlikowski brings to the form.…
Asteroid City 2023

★★★★½ Rewatched 30 Jun 2023

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

Almost necessary for repeat viewings, considering this is Wes Andersen's most layered work to date. We see things as they unfold from production to play, but between the cast breaking character, removing themselves from set, moving back to auditions then back to play, and making quick quips of what scenes lie in the future, a surreal quality is bestowed, which makes it quite challenging to absorb it all first go.
Often a director that is criticized for either doing the…

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Antichrist 2009

★★★★½ Watched 17 Sep 2023

As is with great lasting horror, it goes beyond scares and shock value to give you something layered and affecting. Luckily, Von Trier’s Antichrist gives you more than you can bare of both, and for a directors career so instilled in pretentiousness, misogyny, and transgression, my concurring opinion is that these are just the vehicles of the narrative with much more to say beyond that. For a film literal in its depictions of grief, pain, despair, and mutilation, it also forces…
Lolita 1962

★★★½ Watched 17 Sep 2023

I will preface with the fact that I haven’t read the source material, but if Kubrick had to take a lessened approach to the provocative elements and honed in on the core relationship dynamics, it’s still a very good film for it. Lolita’s strength really comes from this fantasy turned nightmare, and of course through Kubricks technical mastery coming into focus. The dark comedy meshes unexpectedly well, where the titular character is given a lot of agency, and therefore allowing…

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The Batman 2022

★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2022 2

David Fincher’s The Batman, this is not. To wear the mark of that influence one would assume its share of good dialogue, tension, and shocks to the core as we unravel what’s burrowing deeper beneath the surface. Maybe the most interesting comparison was one to The Crow, which unfortunately doesn’t imbue the same sense of dread, weirdness, or of a multilayered revenge story, but I can see the sad boy tone and 90’s grunge soundtrack doing the heavy lifting there.…
Possessor 2020

★★★★★ Watched 01 Oct 2020

One would assume the son of David Cronenberg would be debuting painstakingly brutal and violent body horror that rivals even some of his aforementioned fathers masterworks. This assumption added with some shocking slasher razzle-dazzle would be correct. Rolling out today in drive-ins and theaters, Brandon Cronenberg bursts through seams with an entry that, whether people love or hate it, will be impossible to forget. Much less uses a concept that foreshadows to a frightening future but instead brings viewers into…