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  Her 2013

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 30 May 2024

  Sexy Kitten has accepted invitation from Big Guy 4x4

  the steady drift amid
  the incessant strums of
  nightly threads unweaving
  orbits, spinning phantoms

  between neon nowhere pasts
  and bleary city-smogged paths,
  how stupid do I make living look,
  having forgotten all odysseys dance a circle back h…?

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  The Killer 2023

  ★★★ Watched 10 Nov 2023

  “Can you help a girl out?”
  
  Once it clicks that The Killer is an absurdist dark comedy about the empty cycle of addiction (specifically to control, with more than a wink-wink to its directorial incarnation) the stark precision-focused horror of “being in the mind of a killer” flips from provocative to buffoonish, from audible teeth-cringing to keeling in laughter.

  Delightfully refreshing!

  
  The cruel shot of a crumpled body rear-up in a recycling cart cutting to the elevator joke has such a tremendous tonal whiplash that it is an ingenious red-herring.

Popular reviews

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  Thoroughbreds 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Nov 2021

  ~Sociopathy is a Spectrum~

  The hilarious, sharp dialogue lacquers the rotten cores of one who’s apathy incarnate and the other sloppy but sly narcissist. 

  The film brilliantly flips your sympathies.
  And technically deliciously polished.

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  Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Jun 2021

  À terme, on se rende comte que son regard est une position de solitude. Un acte sans réciprocité. Peu importe l'intention.

  Nos Eurydices partent. 
  Aucun contact ne reste.
  Aucune prière n’attrape.

  Ce film se laisse voir! Allez le voir! 

  (tr. Eventually, we realize that our gaze is a solitary pose. An act without reciprocity. No matter the intention. 

  Our Eurydices depart.
  No touch remains.
  No prayer ensnares.

  This film is incredible! Go see it!)