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Barbarian 2022
Genuinely baffled by the positive reception this is getting. It would be easy enough to write it off as a middling goofy horror flick if the rich white dude who wrote it didn’t insist on shoehorning in half-assed themes of gender, race and class despite having absolutely nothing to say about any of it.
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Civil War 2024
The idea of making an "apolitical" war film about the polarization of American politics was dubious to begin with, but it is remarkable to see a film this technically well-made struggle this much to get across its themes despite pursuing that goal at all costs. Alex Garland has spoken very explicitly about what Civil War is about: war is bad, polarization is the ultimate problem, there are no moral distinctions between left and right (yikes), and journalism, along with film, can…
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