What a gem this film is. I’m honestly dumbfounded at how this movie was filmed in 1972, but between the bombastic jazz soundtrack, the blurred neon lights, the hums and roars of the cars, and the almost French New Wave editing, Hairpin Circus was a wonderful surprise. Pure vibes from start to finish and seeping with style in every facet. It’s not perfect (poor frame rate and occasionally teetering on nausea-inducing camera shake) and not all of its experimental cinematography…
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The Substance 2024
Fun, if pretty shallow all around. Very poorly paced, though, and I think if this were a tight 90 I would have enjoyed it more. I think this does fall apart a bit in the third act, too, but the New Year’s show scene was a standout even if completely off the rails.
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Black Christmas 1974
RIP Olivia Hussey. What a wonderful performance in such a trailblazing film for the genre. Can’t wait to watch again next year.
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Anora 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Anora is a formally well put together film, but I found this to be rhetorically shallow in its central framing around class disparity and, of course, the realities of sex work. Mikey Madison gives a wonderful performance of a character herself performing — Ani, our titular protagonist, is given no interior, no reality outside her persona as a sex worker save for just under a minute of her commute home after a night of work. Really, this is the only…
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