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A Report on the Party and the Guests 1966
The Devil is balding. He would like the seats to be in order.
A great double feature with 2012's Compliance, the numbing absurdity of authority seeps through each brief moment of Jan Němec's A Report on the Party and the Guests, a sterile monument to class traitors only slightly less on the nose than the "someday I might be rich, and people like me better watch their step" line from Futurama. At this rancid party, well-meaning people stand up to…
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Black Bag 2025
Hot DAMN. An absolute crackerjack picture barreling through the crack in the winter doldrum glass left by last week’s messy and earnest Mickey 17, Black Bag, the first slam dunk of 2025, is a precise, playful, wondrously romantic thriller.
While more than enough to dissect on its own, Soderbergh’s Black Bag is maybe best thought of in comparison to his other 2025 feature Presence, a bruised, bleeding heart of a picture with more rough edges than can count, overcome through sheer…
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The Hate U Give 2018
'Crowdpleasing' has never been a term I particularly liked, especially outside of the four-quadrant blockbusters. Whenever a drama, especially a drama that deals with serious issues gets called 'crowdpleasing', it usually means that the issues and themes have been pacified enough that it's not going to piss off anyone for the sake of making an extra buck or two. But I was hopeful walking into The Hate U Give. In a year where we have had three films that tackled…
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Captain America: Brave New World 2025
Only good moment is when a sea of boyfriends around me quietly whispered “that’s from Eternals” to the most patient women I’ve ever encountered.
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