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Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Nostalgia
  • You Were Never Really Here
  • The Zone of Interest

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★½

  • Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder

    ★½

  • Mistress Dispeller

    ★½

  • The Piano Teacher

    ★★★★½

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  • Sick of Myself

    Sick of Myself

    ★★★½

    This is one of the best We Live In A Society films in a while, although I have more tolerance for that genre in general than cool people do - anyone with an interest in observing the residual culture created by the combined declining rate of profit and death of the welfare state in post-industrial economies, without any explicit commentary on either of them, should give this a whirl, though. However, ignoring that and the rest of the film's social…

  • R.M.N.

    R.M.N.

    One of the most profoundly stupid "from the headlines" political films in recent memory, wrapped up in the costume of European slow cinema so everyone has to take it seriously, a Guardian article put to film. There is a long unbroken scene in a town hall meeting that you can scroll through dozens of glowing descriptions of in this film's popular reviews on here, which is vastly better than actually watching it, and finding nearly 20 minutes of ridiculous, cartoon…

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  • Miss Americana

    Miss Americana

    ★½

    An incredibly acute depiction of the failure of US liberalism, multi-millionaires on private jets make soft-progressive points on women's and LGBT rights and are shocked by the strain of conservative populism in the US which despises them and everything they claim to represent by association, and fail to draw any connection between their eye-watering wealth and excess and the anger that they just can't understand. It'd be difficult to find a more tone-deaf film. "We can run away from fascism"…

  • Penguin Highway

    Penguin Highway

    ★★★½

    basically a better version of Annihilation

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