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Reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  

  Mark Asch ★★★½

  In 1988, the year she turned 26, Michelle Yeoh, the former Miss Malaysia turned rising action star, married the luxury-retail magnate and film executive who had launched her movie career,…

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  Night Moves 2013

  

  Mark Asch ★★★★ 2

  so beautifully photographed, so *eloquent*—every frame in Reichardt’s films is the equal of Stephen Shore, but even denser with histories and implications and ironies of conquest and commerce and clutter…

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  CODA 2021

  

  Esther Rosenfield ★★ 22

  obviously this is classic sundance anti-cinema, a logline in search of any sort of artistic vision. that would be more or less excusable as awards bait if the logline was…

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  Inland Empire 2006

  

  ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 18

  "I'm trying to tell you so's you'll understand how it went. The thing is, I don't know what was before or after. I don't know what happened first, and it's…

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  Nightmare Alley 2021

  

  Esther Rosenfield ★★ 10

  del toro's insistence on these swiss watch narratives where every single moment and gesture has to perfectly serve the capital-T Theme is, imo, better served to brisk thrillers than these…

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  Alphaville 1965

  

  Elena Lazic ★★★★★ 1

  There is an amazing take at the beginning of Alphaville showing a car headlight blinking in close up. At first however, we do not know for sure that the image…

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  One Second 2020

  

  Juan

  more subtly scathing and sad than i expected given the notes about how censored it feels in most reviews; if you cut out that epilogue, the final shots are genuinely…

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  Close-Up 1990

  

  Sophy ★★★★★ 2

  Obviously, this is a masterpiece. Kiarostami’s ability to simultaneously lie and manipulate through form, while also preaching the utmost universal truths is untouchable.

  In the beginning of the film, I…