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  • The Blackcoat's Daughter

    ★★★½

  • Only Lovers Left Alive

  • Dogtooth

    ★★★

  • Rope

    ★★★★

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  • The Blackcoat's Daughter

    The Blackcoat's Daughter

    ★★★½

    Osgood Perkins’ The Blackcoat’s Daughter is a masterclass in subtle, atmospheric storytelling. It rejects the common horror tendency to spell everything out, instead trusting the audience to piece together its intricately woven narrative, giving its audience such an ironically refreshing story-telling strategy.
    The film operates under the guise of horror but is, at its heart, a profoundly sad and bleak tale about loneliness. Its deliberate pacing and fragmented structure mirror the isolation of its protagonist, Kat, who begins the film…

  • Only Lovers Left Alive

    Only Lovers Left Alive

    Only Lovers Left Alive brings a humanity to otherwise inhuman creatures.
    I loved the incorporation of the Arabic song by the Lebanese artist Yasmine Hamdan, bringing about a genuineness to the whole atmosphere in Algiers.

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  • Of Unknown Origin

    Of Unknown Origin

    ★★★★

    Funny seeing Peter desperate for an exterminator only to find him play one nearly a decade later.
    There's a touch of The Entity (1982) in this film—highlighting Peter's descent to madness, his creeping paranoia, or his cry for help; however you want to see it, was extremely well played. Whether we want to symbolize a rat as Peter's dissatisfaction with life or if we want to see the rat as what it was in reality, a rat, it is extremely…

  • Blink Twice

    Blink Twice

    ★★★½

    Okay, so I had the opportunity of watching this pleasant surprise at the movies the other day. I came in not knowing what to expect or what might come out of it. I gotta give it to Zoe for doing a marvelous job with this one. I could tell how inspired by movies she'd been and by life's events to have her debut be about all those things that have touched her in so many ways. Yes, I am referring…

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