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Recent reviews

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  Presence 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2025 8

  Soderbergh's spectral meditation. 
  "Presence" deftly subverts haunted house conventions, operating instead as an incisive domestic representation where the supernatural also becomes metaphor for family dissonance. The spectral entity functions not as mere apparition but as externalized psychic residue. The film's schism of the family unit - father and daughter as vessels of heightened perception, mother and son inhabiting realms of cynical detachment - creates a dialectic through which Soderbergh examines the fractured phenomenology of domestic space. And the medium's arrival…

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  Strange Darling 2023

  ★½ Watched 26 Jan 2025 2

  When a director with no ideas and no talent is convinced he is Quentin Tarantino. Award for the most irritating film for average cinephiles in recent years.

Popular reviews

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  Parthenope 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Sep 2024

  Il personaggio di Sandrino è l'unico che non parla con frasi a effetto, e infatti poi decide di trasferirsi a Milano. 

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  Paolo Sorrentino, ranked

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  Malignant 2021

  ★★★ Watched 01 Sep 2021

  After the dime-a-dozen movies that he produced for the "Conjuring Universe", James Wan returns to direct a horror film not only to remind us what he's made of but also to show the masses of talentless directors out there that it actually is possible to make a personal film without leaving the mainstream. Here the director takes his ultra-saturated and excessively stylish directing to the extreme without ever turning it into a negative, all while playing with the clichés of…