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• The Irishman

  The Irishman 2019

  

  Doug Dillaman ★★★★ 8

  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.

• On Body and Soul

  On Body and Soul 2017

  

  Michael Sicinski ★★½

  [5]

  My capsule review for Cinema Scope's TIFF coverage:

  In describing the histrionic performances that tend to nab Oscars, Mike D’Angelo has noted that voters and juries often mistake “most…

• Makala

  Makala 2017

  

  Michael Sicinski ★★★½

  [7]

  Kabwita has 15 bags of charcoal precariously strapped to his bicycle.

  He must travel 50 km to the city to sell his charcoal at the market.

  While taking a…