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  Reality 2023

  ★★★½ Added 2

  69/100

  
  Within its chosen limitations of largely structuring this as a true to interrogation transcript re-enactment, this works pretty well as a showcase for some very well thought out performances that understand how subtle shifts in body language, voice tone and even word enunciation can turn what seems like a banal conversation into something more entrapping. Sydney Sweeney will deservedly get most of the recognition but it's worth noting that Josh Hamilton is only playing a slight variation of his…

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  Sanctuary 2022

  ★★★ Added 2

  65/100

  
  Works pretty well as a playful and quite fun exercise in role play, blessed with some sharp, humorous dialogue and two magnetic performances that just about paper over the many corners the script repeatedly writes itself into.

  As anything more though, it is a bit lacking with only surface level character work despite all the mindgames and no real sense of character history, and a general level of safety in its kinkiness and stakes that betrays its safe word title.

Popular reviews

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  R.M.N. 2022

  ★★★★ Added 7

  79/100

  
  Cristian Mungiu tries to diagnose the cause of xenophobia and the treatment of 'others' and the result is a film that is so immersive in depicting a community and its history that the viewer can not only see the invisible alliances, the familial feuds and the petty grudges but can also get in sync with the daily routines and rhythms of the small Transylvanian town where this is set.

  Shot in shivery blue tones and with an incredible depth…

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  Women Talking 2022

  ★★ Added

  45/100

  
  It pains me to have this reaction given Sarah Polley's established facility as a writer-director of acute emotional honesty and intimacy, but I did not buy any of this on a character or narrative level.

  An "act of female imagination" it may be but giving modern, progressive and articulate voices to women who are supposed to have spent their entire lives in a closed off, conservative, repressed, religious and patriarchal environment that denied them basic fundamentals such as literacy,…