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Reviews

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  Violent Cop 1989

  

  JakubM ★★★★½

  Like peeling off a shiny mask and finding nothing but rotting flesh beneath. I’ve never seen such a conventional police story told with so much disdain for the very conventions…

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  Dead Ringers 1988

  

  JakubM ★★★★½

  Plays like a reconsideration, or at least a re-framing, of the kinds of questions David Cronenberg has been chasing his entire career. It's not a clean division—Cronenberg's preceding take on…

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  In the Name of the Father 1993

  

  JakubM ★★★★

  In the Name of the Father oozes rage—rightfully so—and anchors it to Daniel Day Lewis's remarkable performance. At various points he's playful, conflicted, vulnerable, defiant, despondent, and every other emotion…

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  Theorem 1968

  

  JakubM ★★★★½

  A series of encounters with ways of being and thinking so radical as to provoke profound epistemological destabilization. In the first half, a visitor arrives at a family's estate and,…

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  A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001

  

  ericredetzke ★★★★★ 2

  A.I. is a crushing experience.

  It's been days since my rewatch and I can't shake it. This weird, messy, inexplicable film leaves me flabbergasted and devastated, where upon initial release…

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  World on a Wire 1973

  

  Zachary ★★★★

  Classic story: a scientist makes an earth shattering technological discovery that upends his entire world as the forces of capitalistic greed swoop in to abuse that information for monetary gain.…

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  Red Sorghum 1987

  

  Zachary ★★★½ 3

  Like endless swaying fields of sorghum grass, humans are made up of what is in the earth. We are our homes, the land, its people. Everything it is exists in…

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  Inland Empire 2006

  

  Zachary ★★★★ 1

  A woman in trouble. A throttling, funny and frequently nightmarish vision of the grimy whirring underbelly of the entertainment machine. Like Mulholland Dr., the surrealistic flourishes suggest a waking-dream dichotomy…