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  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

    ★★★

  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

    ★★★★★

  • Heretic

    ★★★★

  • The Substance

    ★★★★½

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  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

    ★★★

    I hadn’t quite remembered the second film as well as I had the first. I still do really think these movies as a whole are phenomenal to watch in one big sitting but there’s one ‘chapter’ that I start to lose my suspension of disbelief near the end. Everything else still works so nicely with the first part, but it becomes somewhat pulp. I don't know, I really hate to criticize this second half too harshly because I still think it’s paramount to reach the complete ending of both of these two films; the first part is just so astounding it’s hard not to draw comparisons.

  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

    ★★★★★

    Rewatching this film between such different stages of my life is seeing it newly. At two different crossroads, it means I have a different network of synapses in my brain, of nerves in my chest, for this film to tug at. To tear. I had thought I healed from the first time seeing this film but I am still as clueless, as lost, as vulnerable to this film than I had been when I had first watched before my foray…

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★

    For one of the first films in a long time to make me jump - and fully by surprise in the first 15 minutes of the film - I was ready for a Silence of the Lambs type something with an equally compelling main character. But as the film went on and abandoned hope in the titular villain, discarded for dried out a Satanic Panic subplot that completely derails the film halfway through with blasé red herrings and cookie-cutter’ clues’…

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