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The Lighthouse 2019
The eponymous lighthouse sits between reality and phantasmagoria, eliciting the same emotions that a canvas given life by oil does. It registers as a story that draws detail in fable, becoming like pores seen on the skin, as it alludes to Prometheus and Mellville and Conrad and Coleridge and hundreds of other nautical fictions that used to dot the literary landscape. And yet, this allusion, this irrevocable connection to Omoo, Mardi, Typee, and the beloved Moby Dick becomes distilled into…
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Mickey 17 2025
My enjoyment starts and ends at the high concept premise which, sadly, only gets engaged with in the first half of this affair. How one goes from writing Parasite to Mickey 17 is confounding, almost concerning. Bong has never been a stranger to comedy, to barren, wry satire and madcap ideas, yet what is presented here is equal parts unfunny and unfocused.
South Park discovered first hand why satire aimed at characters like Trump are dramatically more difficult than one…
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The Monkey 2025
Unnecessarily written like a high schooler’s first screenplay. Bizarre and unfunny.
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Jojo Rabbit 2019
Nazism is the wicked paradigm through which many convince themselves that an “other” exists, and doesn’t deserve to. The insipid thought that pollutes even well-reasoned minds with anxieties. Many may consider its rigid white-nationalism as a form of self-love, however cruel and evil. And yet, it isn’t. There is no self-love to be found in the admonition of an “other”, or the creation of a villain, or even a false-apotheosis at the hands of deceitful pseudo-science and total farce. This…
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Suspiria 2018
The beating of a rhythm, from the heart to feet to hands to lungs, encompasses Suspiria's entirety. Everything but the editing, beautifully syncopated to the natural rhythm and hum of the project, accentuates what you have slowly been enraptured within; a cacophonous descent into darkness. Darkness, as seen in the heart, the dance, and the will to continue breathing, refusing to beg for death, yet knowing that it is inevitable.
Guadagnino's strength is showing it through the cuts, both literal…
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