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Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush 2022
For what it's worth, this is the movie I'll recommend to my grandma when she asks if I've seen anything good at this year's Berlinale.
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Dune 2021
"Sweat and tears."
Terrific to see something so utterly committed to itself, especially when there's this much money involved. The biggest problem of the 1984 film was that it mistook Herbert's book for the quintessential science fiction text it's still made out to be i.e. for an uplifting adventure about a Boy who becomes a God when really it's a dire, convoluted and gloom-ridden meditation on power and religious fanaticism that's not at all interested in the awe of exploring…