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Reviews

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  Don't Look Up 2021

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★½ 4

  Much better than the negative reviews, but far too plagued with problems to quite work. McKay gift for satiric portrait and for letting comedy set pieces to go out of…

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  Canary 2004

  

  Bingham_Bryant

  Always gratifying when, after four mediocre but intermittently striking films by a director, one hits upon the exception where they more consistently fulfill their promise. This is a far better…

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  Titane 2021

  

  Adam Nayman ★★½ 48

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

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  Ahed's Knee 2021

  

  davidehrlich ★★★★

  When writer-director Nadav Lapid was doing press for his Berlinale-winning “Synonyms” in 2019, he told a funny story about his conflicted approach to the Israeli notions of masculinity and national…

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  Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn 2021

  

  davidehrlich ★★★½

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

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  Charulata 1964

  

  Patrick Preziosi ★★★★½

  The most rigorous dispensing of tragedy I've seen Ray achieve yet, considering the total absence of any sort of narrative crux attaching itself to a moment of death or marriage.…

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  The Dolphin 1987

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★½

  Who needs The Shape of Water when there’s anarchist man-dolphins ready to pull pranks, subvert economic power and seduce women on the margins of the Amazon?

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  Malmkrog 2020

  

  Doug Dibbern ★★★★

  Unlike many ardent film buffs, I generally like talking films: talking seems just as – maybe even more – important than the visual design. But that’s just me. So I…