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  • Un Chien Andalou
  • A Man Escaped
  • Braindead
  • Red Spirit Lake

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  • The People Under the Stairs

    ★★★★

  • History Lessons

    ★★★½

  • Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

    ★★★

  • Jawan

    ★★★★

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  • You Could Have Seen The Mona Lisa

    You Could Have Seen The Mona Lisa

    ★★★★

    I have never seen the Mona Lisa.

    A few months ago, we took my daughter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She had grown fond of a Gerald and Piggy "art-tivity" book, which had a large number of games and activities centered around famous paintings of the world, and included was an index that detailed the paintings referenced and where to see them. She saw that several were at the Met, so I asked her if she would like to…

  • Shatter Dead

    Shatter Dead

    ★★★★

    One thing I've learned about myself while immersed in the world of SOV is that I no longer really give a tin shit whether or not something is narratively coherent or how formally impressive it is or isn't if, at bottom, it makes emotional sense to me. Shatter Dead is better made than most at this level because Scooter McCrae is a thoughtful dude with a number of strong ideas and a visual sense that finds striking images whenever he…

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  • The People Under the Stairs

    The People Under the Stairs

    ★★★★

    Remember when Scream was a big comeback for Wes Craven? Turns out he had nothing to come back from - he'd been killing it the whole time and people just weren't appreciating it.

    (Well, okay, maybe not Vampire in Brooklyn.)

  • History Lessons

    History Lessons

    ★★★½

    A grand subversion, a thorough and amusingly anarchic act of revealing the subtext (or, in many cases, the text) of female interaction. "They're lesbians, Harold."

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  • Beyond the Black Rainbow

    Beyond the Black Rainbow

    ★★★★★

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

    Rather than a proper review, I'd like to address something I've been seeing a lot vis-a-vis this here movie. In other words, I'm about to break this shit down real small.

    Great visual experience, but oh that ending! That seems to be a standard knock on Panos Cosmatos's sumptuous, thrilling sensory blast Beyond the Black Rainbow, to where even its champions feel like apologizing the last fifteen away. Nuts to that. Its ending is terrific, a sudden disorienting gearshift that…

  • Kung Fury

    Kung Fury

    ½

    Creatively bankrupt dead-eyed smug garbage masquerading as nostalgia-humping homage. Fuck this. Fuck all of this. Fuck everything it represents.