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Reviews

• Cairo Station

  Cairo Station 1958

  

  sydney ★★★

  once again women are the casualties of the incels vs marxists war

• Stories We Tell

  Stories We Tell 2012

  

  Matt Erspamer ★★★ 1

  wow just like mamma mia

• To the Wonder

  To the Wonder 2012

  

  Ty Landis

  “I want to keep your last name.”

  Truly the most devastating shit. Meanders a tad in the second act which is all part of its infrastructure of stagnation, but Malick’s portrait…

• The High Note

  The High Note 2020

  

  inessentials ★★★½ 7

  The plot's contrived, the screenwriter doesn't trust their director, the musical references are too obvious, and so on, but Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross give such wonderful performances, it…

• Da 5 Bloods

  Da 5 Bloods 2020

  

  Jake Mulligan ★★★★ 1

  Having lost his standing with the major studios, Spike Lee spent the 2010s trading his credibility to new media companies in exchange for creative freedom. Hence a Brechtian musical gang…

• Hail, Caesar!

  Hail, Caesar! 2016

  

  Matt Ellis ★★★★

  First time through this back in theaters I thought it was a quirky Coen romp poking fun at the Hollywood mythos through a laundry list of archetypes (closeted director of…

• The Matrix

  The Matrix 1999

  

  Nick Newman

  Brought to mind the professor of my Cronenberg class telling us one should feel bad for preferring The Matrix to eXistenZ because the former is (I'm paraphrasing) "philosophically flat pop…

• Midsommar

  Midsommar 2019

  

  Connor Denney ★½

  I'm just not interested in any of the same things Ari Aster is. I'm not sure if his supporters are unsettled by the disturbing violence and sex or the general…