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The Hunt 2012
A dread-inducing account of a high-trust community's descent into mass hysteria. The Hunt is as compelling as it is subtle, taking care not to bludgeon its audience over the head with a forced message, or reveal more than what is necessary.
The Hunt puts Lucas in a petrifying, near impossible-to-escape position without offering any easy outs or answers. You want to join Marcus in cursing Klara for her deceitfulness, but you know she's just a kid who fails to fully…
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American History X 1998
American History X handles complex themes in the least subtle ways, and tells you more than it needs to. All the potentially emotional moments feel so contrived that the intended moral messages come off shallow and generic. The use of slow-mo, gregorian choir music, and ‘metaphorical’ black-and-white result in a film that is more a crowd pleaser than the deep, artsy flick it’s trying to be. I mean, seriously? Fat neo-nazi throws out the one black jelly bean conveniently on top in a bowl of white ones?
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Joker 2019
The first third of this movie admittedly was pretty underwhelming. I felt like I was watching the same, once-riveting trailer I had seen about twelve hundred times prior, except in a theater. Thankfully things started to get going, but by that time I could barely say “gamer” before I was in total shock. That “oh, fr*ck” feeling lasted well beyond the almost surreal, terrifyingly triumphant ending one comes to expect from a director like Ari Aster, not the Hangover guy. …
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