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‘Dominion’ is near-enough the ‘Jurassic Park’ sequel you’ve been waiting for
7/10 “The end of the Jurassic era,” woah! The Jurassic Park series is an “era” now, OK, that’s certainly a word. And Jurassic World: Dominion is the end of that era! Don’t get sick of it now, we’ve only got … Continue reading
Golden Lion-winning ‘Happening’ is all about abortion, wonderful
7/10 Like many high-profile foreign films, Happening is capital “I” Important but not capital “G” Good. The newest Golden Lion winner is just as absent-mindedly charged as its recent peers, but it feels a little different this time. Université de … Continue reading
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Tagged Golden Lion, Happening, Roe v Wade, Venice International Film Festival
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A guilty caricature of ‘Men’
8/10 Men is a surprisingly straightforward film about God’s hatred for women. Writer/director Alex Garland is a master of associative imagery and abstract filmmaking, and this is one of those cases where the visuals are the plot, but also individual … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Garland, Ex Machina, Jessie Buckley, man-monster, Men, Roe v Wade, Rory Kinnear
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‘You Won’t Be Alone’ slides silently through theaters, one of year’s best
9/10 You Won’t Be Alone made a little more than a quarter million in theaters, but what’s the point of writing about movies all the time if I’m not going to make time for one of the year’s best pictures. … Continue reading
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Tagged A24, Focus Features, Folk horror, Goran Stolevski, Macedonian, The Witch, You Won't Be Alone
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‘Everything Everywhere’ closer to one thing in one place
5/10 They say the two things you can’t avoid are death and taxes. Even in a movie about jumping through the multiverse, one that built an advertising campaign around introducing the concept to audiences, the characters can’t find their way … Continue reading
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