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In Bruges 2008
"I know I'm awake but it feels like I'm in a dream."
There's nothing worse than holiday bitterness. It's a horrible paradox- you shouldn't be unhappy on a vacation, because that's the very thing made to alleviate your pain. And yet there's always something in the air, some kind of parasite pressing on the side of your mind. The promise of a lack of stress is the very thing that lends stress in the first place. When this ailment takes…
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Submarine 2010
"Unless things improve, the biopic of my life will only have the budget for a zoom out."
Submarine is sweet and uncertain, not without its drama but also straying well away from any over-the-top characters or conflicts. Richard Ayoade's directorial debut resembles a handful of haphazard snapshots taken in the middle of a young man's troubled home life, navigating the first few steps of a rocky but realistic relationship and diving deep into internal dialogues and thought bubbles of all…
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It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012
"Isn't everything amazing?"
It's Such a Beautiful Day is a film for when life is just a pileup of blotchy intrusive thought bubbles and faded comic book panels torn at the seams, and when the passing of time is nothing more than a plague. When the line between dreams and fiction is just an ugly messy scribble, when the ridiculous becomes reality, the handmade multimedia masterpiece of Don Hertzfeldt is a simultaneous birth and death, a loop of soul-crushing self-destruction…
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Uncut Gems 2019
"This is how I win."
Uncut Gems is set just ten years ago, but its atmosphere is so unique that it feels like a period piece all the same. Anxiety runs concurrent with blood through the veins of A24's two-hour magnum opus, bringing the brotherly duo of Josh and Benny Safdie to new directorial heights and applying some of the decade's most stunning cinematography and color grading into the experience along the way.
Bedazzled with brutality and shining in the…
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