I was a teenage anarchist (yes, like in the Against Me! song) when I first saw this movie. A self-styled student of modern European revolutionary history, I wrote a snarky review for a local radical publication, in which I excoriated its representation of February and October 1917 – collapsed into one another in the film, with the Bolsheviks here storming the Winter Palace to overthrow the tsar instead of the Provisional Government – as by-products of a kind of collective…
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Mickey 17 2025
Mickey 17 is a movie about clones that invites the charge of being itself a clone of a sort, or at least derivative, i.e., yet another withering satire of modern capitalism, from the director of Parasite and Snowpiercer. But while there are some obvious formal and thematic similarities with his previous work, Bong Joon-ho’s latest is no mere multiple; Mickey 17 is not nearly as nihilistic about the psychodynamics of inequality as the former nor as despairing of the possibilities…
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The Girl with the Needle 2024
An oppressively dark, modern fairy tale, complete with all-too human monsters and set in the shadow of the Great War, The Girl with the Needle is beautifully shot and brilliantly realized – and I never want to watch or even think about it again. Except, maybe, the scene where one of the characters goes full Colonel Jessep and delivers the equivalent of “you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall!”
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