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  Review by karsten ★★★★★ 1

  best movie ever, what more could you want here? not one part of this isn’t paid full attention to. so bold, so metallic, so gross and so funny??? to think, i loved ‘raw’ and this just completely surpasses that movie in every way. the music choices, come on!! the whole movie is on FIRE! this is a sloppy review and i’m sorry about that but i just loved this. i had such a good time and i’m so so so excited to watch it again and show it to everyone i know besides my parents because i don’t know if they’ll dig this one tbh!

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  Review by Sean Baker 31

  2nd time watching this film at the theater and thinking about a 3rd. That should tell you what I think of it.

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  Review by Megan Bitchell ★★★★★ 6

  gay son AND thot daughter

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  Review by karsten ★★★★★

  got some subway before this and that was grosser than anything that happened in the movie

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  Review by BRAT ★★★★★ 7

  beneath its steely and bloody exterior, beneath its impeccably directed body horror, even beneath all the fascinating things it has to say about the fluidity of gender, Titane is ultimately a film about love. about what happens when love brushes up against hate and fear and rage and alienation and every negative emotion oozing through your veins like motor oil. how love is born from the most unlikely sources, how it takes myriad forms (romantic, platonic, paternal, maternal, etc.). 

  Cronenberg's Crash deals with similar subject matter, i.e. cars and fucking, but in a cold and clinical way (not a critique at all!! i love Crash!!!), whereas Titane is unexpectedly warm and deeply human. the reason this film rises above so…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★★ 1

  A tremendous work about what it means to be meat, and how beautiful and terrible transformation must be. Cronenberg gets tossed around a lot in these parts, but this is truly the New Flesh.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★★ 14

  Holy fuck I feel like my brain is on fire

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½

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

  During the first half of Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” it’s hard to tell if you’re watching the most fucked up movie ever made about the idea of found family, or the sweetest movie ever made about a serial killer who has sex with a car, poses as the adult version of a local boy who went missing a decade earlier, and then promptly moves in with the kid’s still-grieving father. During the second half, it becomes obvious that it’s both — that somehow it couldn’t be one without the other.

  Following the cannibalistic “Raw” with another ravenous film that pushes her fascination with the hunger and malleability of human flesh to even further extremes, Ducournau has made good on the promise…

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  Review by cookie ★★★★★ 5

  let yourself laugh it’s funny i promise

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  Review by Adam Nayman ★★½ 22

  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 the William Castle-like hype around its festival screenings, which have reportedly seen fainting, barfing, walkouts and the like. 

  Alexia (Agatha Rouselle) is a sociopath whose serial-murdering habits stem - directly or indirectly, it’s not clear, a loaded vagueness being Titane’s…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 6

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  Festival hype had me prepared for a shocker, but even when Titane revels in provocation and ultraviolence, rolling and dancing and fucking in motor oil, what lingers is its capacity for kindness and restraint. Within the context of a grisly midnight movie premise, Julia Ducournau allows for a sweetness to initially find its way in on the fringes of the frame before consuming the film entirely. As an examination of bodily frustration, metal and flesh, sex and bloodshed, it's often stunning, with rich sound design and pulsating, energizing images that dare the viewer to cover their eyes, but it quickly blossoms into something beautiful: a incisive study of gender fluidity. What if we find acceptance by being someone else? What if that's who we really are? In terms of Great performances in 2021, you might as well stop looking with Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Lindon. Their dynamic is spectacular.

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  Review by clemmie ★★★★ 17

  watch it with your mom