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Vortex 2021
When the lights came up in the theater after Vortex ended, everyone just sat in silence. It might have been the quietest I’ve ever heard a group of people leave any room ever.
The raw unflinching brutality that Noé is known for is here, make no mistake. However, it is much quieter and much more sinister than his usual showcase of pain and anguish. The decaying of your mind isn’t a drug trip you get to wake up from. It’s…
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Aftersun 2022
A quietly devastating work. Impossibly subtle and effective for a debut feature film. It’s not that I’m so excited for this writer/director’s potential, it’s that she’s made a masterpiece.
I know myself and that stories about memory deeply connect with me, and this is a story that is realized fully within the confines of memory. Broken, incomplete, fragmented, and yet so compelling. The filmed moments within the film device allow for tiny windows into crystallized moments to reveal themselves. But…
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From Ground Zero 2024
No words can describe what it was like to watch people pour what little they have left of themselves into making art facing down a genocide. One of the most powerful films ever made.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
A desperate, primal cry for a world obsessed with the future and what might be, to focus on the present and what is. In a just world this would be the highest grossing film of the year. It does everything you could want a film to do. I laughed, cried, and everything in between.
Thanks to Kan Kan for the opportunity to see this a little early and thanks to Ryan of Son Lux for letting us into the creative…
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The Iron Claw 2023
The wordless pauses, the complete lie, the rhythm of conversation not spoken. The Iron Claw brings to life the crushing weight of gendered expectation in a hyper-masculine environment. Indebted to Scorsese, but never derivative. This one broke me.
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