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Piggy 2022
That “Piggy” can be splendidly artful and clumsily artless at the same time is a testament to director Carlota Pereda's disdain for the traditional festival crowdpleasing.
Her film, about an overweight teenager who gets sucked into a vortex of bloodletting and flesh coveting, eschews genre conventions and arthouse subtlety for loudly punctuating everything that's perverse about Spain in 2022.
Let's start with Sara's family. They're all plump, disheveled, and stumbling through life as family butchers in a town with a…
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Assault on Precinct 13 1976
It's really insane how self-assured Carpenter was out of the gate. There's no shaggy dog, student-film baggage or meandering here. Just rubbing tensile wires until sparks fly.
That doesn't mean it's action out of the gate, though. It isn't until minute 40 that the siege actually begins. We wisely spend a lot of time building up locations, people, and social dynamics that a less patient director would've jettisoned for meaningless bloodbath from minute one.
Speaking of social dynamics, what is…
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Nope 2022
Jordan Peele is nothing if not extremely invested in crafting his films around a thematic underpinning. His third film is transparently obvious about this, but what makes this one different is the sheer number of things he's grasping at.
I went into "Nope" with fairly high expectations. "Us" left me a little disappointed but I was still impressed with what he had done, or at least tried to do.
I left "Nope" in a weird sort of funk; I was…
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Beau Is Afraid 2023
I live and work in a mid-size American rust belt city that became (briefly) famous a few years ago due to an issue with pipes.
I'm blessed enough to be able to walk downtown to work, and along the way, I see some gnarly shit: homeless dudes screaming profane nonsense at the sky, mothers with infant children nodding off while waiting in line at the methadone clinic, neo-yuppies in Ferraris spending $79 on lunch, even security guards hot boxing in…
