Category Archives: Entropy

Golden Lion-winning ‘Happening’ is all about abortion, wonderful

Posted on June 27, 2022 by reelentropy

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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A guilty caricature of ‘Men’

Posted on June 27, 2022 by reelentropy

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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‘You Won’t Be Alone’ slides silently through theaters, one of year’s best

Posted on June 7, 2022 by reelentropy

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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‘Everything Everywhere’ closer to one thing in one place

Posted on June 6, 2022 by reelentropy

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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An ‘X’ -rated time capsule

Posted on June 6, 2022 by reelentropy

8/10 X is a period piece from behind the camera, a celebration of long-expired tastes to tell a story contrasting the generation that popularized them, the passive changes time brings and the active reactions to those changes. Texas, 1979, the … Continue reading →

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