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  • Infinity Pool

    ★★★★

  • Crash

    ★★★★★

  • Allied

    ★★★½

  • Casablanca

    ★★★★★

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  • Infinity Pool

    Infinity Pool

    ★★★★

    "Do you fear you may have just witnessed your own demise?"

    An idyllic sky is interrupted by the spiraling razor wire of the perimeter fence that encloses a fictional nation’s seaside resort (or "compound"). Armed guards staff checkpoints around the serrated threshold, separating rich guests from the populace. We’re vaguely disclosed dangers beyond these defenses, yet seldom are any seen, let alone perpetrated by the actual inhabitants. Because what if the real menace, the true horror, is inside of the…

  • Crash

    Crash

    ★★★★★

    "The day I left the hospital, I had the extraordinary feeling that all of these cars were gathering for some special reason I didn’t understand."

    Suitably adapts the off-kilter clinical prose of Ballard with a chilling cinematographic temperament that evokes the waking dystopia of the original text while extending the narrative beyond the author's closing pages for a final collision that acts as the desperate yet inevitable evolution of this new techno-organic, horror-manifested ecstasy. Cronenberg’s shrewd rendition of Crash is…

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  • Knives Out

    Knives Out

    ★★★★★

    "This is a twisted web, and we are not finished untangling it, not yet."

    Crackling with a spirited originality made all the more pleasurable by the utter adoration for the narrative's influences, Rian Johnson's Knives Out is a whodunit for the ages; an irresistible, topical, and devilishly entertaining stroke of taut brilliance whose Christie-inspired roots find themselves simultaneously revered and rejuvenated with equal shades of Hitchcock, Columbo, and the filmmaker's genre-melding aptitude. The grasp on the assorted threads in play…

  • Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset Boulevard

    ★★★★★

    Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time (2022) – #82

    "The stars are ageless, aren't they?"

    That feeling. You know it, don't you? We've all been there. Your heartbeat quickens, your eyes widen, your breath slows. Hairs stand on end. It's as though you fade from reality, if only for a handful of fleeting yet transcendent moments as the frames burn themselves across every peak and valley of the mind. The reaction is unquestionable, utterly unstoppable. Emotional, chemical, something…