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  World of Glory 1991

  ★★ Watched by Jude 15 Jun 2022

  blah blah blah the world is hell hopeless cinema eurowank. shut up!!

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  ★★½ Watched by Jude 04 Jun 2022 2

  turgid, and spends a lot of time treading its wheels in lukewarm pastiche of Cronenberg's c. 1990s career. slightly better when it's at least taking the piss out of its own aesthetic nostalgia, and the production design and mise-en-scene ripped straight from Existenz still captivate even when under a frankly unsuited digital gaze. viggo and kstew get to have so much fun that poor lea seydoux seems like a bore by comparison even though she's basically fine. far too mealy-mouthed…

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  Twin Peaks: The Return 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Jude 13 Jun 2019 25

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

  What makes Lynch so fascinating is that he’s a conservative whose aesthetic tendencies (unerring empathy for/centering of his female characters, a proclivity for exploring dysphoric relationships between persons and their bodies/bodies and the world, and an affinity for the cynical epistemology of the noir) constantly undermine his nostalgic and otherwise regressive gestures. Nowhere is that more apparent than in The Return, a colossal moral reckoning with the willful failure of each and every available institution (cultural/political/social) to reckon with trauma.…

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★ Watched by Jude 20 May 2022 7

  feature length rick and morty ep for new york times readers