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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½

  it took more than 100 years, but someone finally figured out the perfect way to end a movie.

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  Review by Phil ★★★★ 1

  The new Wonder Woman movie isn't that bad at all!

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  Review by Matt Neglia ★★ 6

  Girl just wanted to have sex with her man and I just wanted to have a better movie

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  Review by Will Sloan

  I'm always looking for movies that acknowledge that our world is broken, possibly irreparably. Few movies do that, but this one does.

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  Review by Jack ★★★★½ 9

  To open your film with an unsimulated sex scene is incredibly bold and insane. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn recently won the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. I’m not entirely familiar with this director’s work nor the Romanian New Wave movement. This was a wild ride to uncover. The first part of the film is about a teacher who is caught up with a sex tape scandal. We follow her through the streets of Bucharest, Romania. The cinematography is free-formed and relaxed. The direction in the first section is entirely following the main character as she slowly looses her mind. I can compare the first section like the film Two Days, One Night. Did I…

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★

  “A good building makes a beautiful ruin.”

  So funny, and soooooo depressing. Phew.

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  Review by Jack ★★★★

  Radu Jude’s latest is a playful yet biting piece of social satire. It’s a film that grapples with the mess of hypocrisies and contradictory morals of contemporary culture, with Jude exploring this in a wonderfully absurd but incredibly thoughtful manner. It’s definitely a strange endeavor with all of its many meta, unhinged moments but it’s undoubtedly unlike anything out there. Plus, that ending might take the crown for the best and most bonkers ending of the entire year. Just, wow.

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  Review by Scott Tobias ★★★★½ 2

  Incredible. Also: A smart director could tweak this into the most devastating Americanization ever.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★ 2

  Miguel Gomes goes to Romania in all the worst ways. I like most of Jude movies I've seen and I wish he had an arthouse breakthrough with something more interesting than this condecending conceptual comedy, The provocations are shallow and the whole thing feels half formed and smug even if a few of the jokes do land.

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  Review by Buddy O ½ 9

  I feel like the director was obsessed with wanting to show hardcore porn in a theatrical release so he filmed 100 minutes of incomprehensible, pretentious SHIT and slapped it on to 2 minute sex scene, gave the convoluted mess a catchy title and called it a day.

  Well it fucking worked because the title was the only reason I saw it.

  2.5 stars for the opening scene that makes Nocturnal Animals look like a children's film. 2.5 more stars for the funny ending. Negative 4.5 stars for that regurgitated donkey shit that took place for the other 95 minutes of the movie.

  Start it off with some hardcore porn, end it with a funny gag and it'll trick you into thinking you actually liked the movie.

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  Review by Sarah ★★★

  Well this was an interesting double feature with Petite Maman

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  Review by Joel Haver ★★★ 4

  It’s utterly bizarre for Hulu to acquire the rights to a film with unsimulated sex scenes and then go out of their way to butcher it through censorship. All the scenes in question, which are arguably crucial for the telling of the story, are completely covered. The filmmakers have fun with this and arguably it only proves many of the points I believe this film is making, but it feels like why even bother on Hulu’s behalf. As a society we are so quick to label a select few things immoral or degenerate, while giving the pass to all the actual immorality thrusted upon us on a daily basis by degenerates. The obsession with advertisement in the first act was…