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Strange Darling 2023
Quentin Tarentino's imprint is stamped all over JT Mollner's cagey noir thriller, especially as it adopts (this is not a spoiler) the out-of-sequence chapters of "Pulp Fiction" and a story filled with gut-wrenchingly tense violence involving indefinable women. There's no point in detailing the shape-shifting plot, as it would give away too much of the film's raison d'etre, but you can probably figure out what's what by the end of the first reel. Yet, to Mollner's credit, there's a giddy…
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The Holdovers 2023
Alexander Payne continues his gentle exploration of the family--here it's a makeshift one--and his suggestion, that in order to preserve its integrity lying is a requisite, is sharp and on point. Payne pays homage to the films of the Seventies (his use of the fadeout seems almost novel today and the opening MPAA rating is a wonderful blast from the past) and adopts a stark, flat visual sense that bonds perfectly with the material, about Christmas break at an exclusive…
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Barbie 2023
Greta Gerwig's examination of the role toy dolls play in our growing up and how they inform the way both sexes see the world has some swings and misses and there are only a couple laugh-out-loud moments, but it's warm, affectionate and clever and knows the audience it will appeal to. Gerwig chooses not to castigate her characters for being what they are, instead treating them with bemusement and allowing them to develop in interesting ways as the film progresses,…
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Past Lives 2023
Celine Song's quiet and warm feature debut is beautifully crafted in its finely tuned performances, relatable screenplay and elegant framing. (The delicate cinematography by Shabier Kirchner.) Song skips across a couple of decades to tell the story of a young South Korean couple separated when one family emigrates to North America and their intermittent attempts at reconnection as their lives take divergent paths. Though much of it is shot in New York and has an American sensibility to it, Song…
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