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  Review by Lisa the Beauty Queen 46

  What.

  What?

  I don't get it.

  So?

  I don't get it.

  At least give it a rating.

  But I don't get it.

  Was it good?

  Yes.

  Would you recommend it?

  I don't know.

  How does that work?

  I don't know.

  What?

  What?

  Just give it 2 1/2 or something.

  I can't.

  Why?

  Because it's good.

  Then what's the issue?

  I don't know.

  For fuck's sake.

  I don't understand it. It confused me.

  Just your plebian mind.

  Fuck you.

  Fuck you.

  You know this whole review is entirely self-indulgent, right?

  Yep.

  So why are we doing it?

  Only thing we could think of.

  Oh yeah.

  Also we're attention whores who like likes.

  That's true.

  Want pizza?

  Sure.

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  Review by Karst ★★★★½ 6

  Never in a million years did I think a movie that would make me contemplate my existence would also have Darude - Sandstorm in it.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 33

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

  I love it when a straightforward story gets a unique treatment. Glazer's film is deliberately alienating, visually and aurally arresting and singularly engaging. I say the latter with no small amount of reserve as it asks a lot of its audience making it difficult to click with. But click with it I did.

  Glazer opens with the birth of Johansson's character. In a beautiful visual sequence, we hear her find her voice followed by a rather disconcerting scene in which she clothes herself. Disconcerting because of the compete lack of empathy for the dead girl she is plucking her new wardrobe from. Against a sterile white background we see her clinically do what needs to be done. She gives the…

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  Review by shannon ★½ 10

  yeeahhhhh i'm way too dumb to understand films like this so i'm gonna go watch a seth rogen movie

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 71

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

  *THERE WILL BE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW*

  To be honest, I don't think that I have ever gone to see a movie in theatres twice before... not even some of my other favorite films. But after I went to go see Under the Skin last night, I knew that I had to see it again, and I knew that it had to happen immediately. So I went.

  I can now safely say that I think this is one of the greatest films ever made, and most certainly one of the very greatest films of the past few years. It's not for everyone, but if you want to watch an abstract film with an incredible amount of social commentary, this one…

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 10

  didn’t think this was all that freaky until i got home and checked wikipedia and learned that Scotland is a real place

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  Review by bel ★★ 4

  the poor guy just wanted to go to Tesco’s

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 5

  (aka The Woman Who Fell to Earth aka Post Tenebras Fucks): absolutely epic. the rare film that feels genuinely new, even while borrowing liberally from its influences. among other things, one of the cinema's most deeply empathetic portraits of loneliness.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 2

  90

  Anatomy of a Woman. First half is one of the greatest films in existence - composed entirely of observation, detached seduction, process, and an inaccessible yearning for empathy. That Glazer goes down the route of a discovery of appreciation for humanity - for their values, for their glimpses of kindness - only to abruptly switch and paint a fearful, violated portrait in which the interior doesn't even matter is bold to a point where I can't fully get behind it. Still, a marvel in every sense. There are images and sounds here that echo towards the cinematic heavens.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★½ 1

  You are what you eat.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½

  Scarlett Johansson stars an alien who's like "I got yer male gaze right HERE buddy."

  I joke because I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 13

  We are a helpless, hopeless species.