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Reviews

• mother!

  mother! 2017

  

  Tom Hyde ★★★★ 2

  71/100

  Up from 51. No second viewing required, just a super-nerdy, super-convoluted eureka moment analogy to reconcile the fact that I didn't like it first time round. (Note: I didn't…

• Shithouse

  Shithouse 2020

  

  i a n ★★★★

  finally colorblind representation

• The Irishman

  The Irishman 2019

  

  Doug Dillaman ★★★★ 13

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

• Midsommar

  Midsommar 2019

  

  Zach Ralston ★½ 13

  [Originally published on my blog]:

  A clumsy cross-breeding of grief-trauma relationship drama with ghoulish cult-horror, Aster’s sophomore feature is even less moored and more haphazard than HEREDITARY. Had he cared…

• Climax

  Climax 2018

  

  Steve Carlson ★★

  This is the purest form of the "bodies in space" film the Vulgar Auterists kept gesturing towards, I think, and we deserve what we get I suppose.

  The dancers are…

• Sisters

  Sisters 1972

  

  James Callan ★★★

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

• Hearts Beat Loud

  Hearts Beat Loud 2018

  

  Michael Sicinski ★★½ 1

  [5]

  This is a curiously vapid movie, in the sense that anytime conflict could arise, the film short-circuits it, not so much to avoid a tonal rupture as to stay…

• Jigsaw

  Jigsaw 2017

  

  Jeremy Heilman ★★ 1

  Half-star bonus because I have the throw pillow that the lady used to smother her baby on my sitting room couch.