As foundational a modern Western horror movie as exists, but too strange and unpleasant to fit neatly in the Criterion canon; better to double bill it with another visionary, more…
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Obi-Wan Kenobi 2022
One episode left, but I'm calling this (it will most likely end on another cliffhanger anyway); I just don't comprehend the TV format's insistence on plotting over storytelling and cliches…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021
Pure, pristine, dopey dogshit. I know this sounds hyperbolic--well, cause' it is...brace yourself--but I can't help but feel like my childhood has been molested by this movie. Jamie Bouie, in…
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
I read in the news today that if you can testify, under oath, that this film failed to entertain you on some level-let’s call it “your money’s worth” in this…
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Crimes of the Future 2022
It seems trite and obvious at this point to say that cronenberg’s primary fixation is the body and our relationship to it. The themes in CotF are ones we’ve seen…
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A History of Violence 2005
what starts as a case of mistaken identity turns into a rumination on how unknowable we all are, even to ourselves. Cronenberg really goes the subtle, underlying route on the…
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Crimes of the Future 2022
Body is reality. Surgery is the new sex. Long live the new flesh.
The amalgamation of David Cronenberg's own infatuation with the core concept of bodily transformation. Of course, those…
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Crimes of the Future 2022
as a Certified Cronenbabe, it’s gratifying to see the definitive king of body horror return to his old-school roots. reminded me of an amalgamation of eXistenZ, Dead Ringers, and his…
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