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  • Beast

    ★★★

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★★

  • Kes

    ★★★★

  • Bob le Flambeur

    ★★

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  • Beast

    Beast

    ★★★

    Part experimental film, part soap opera. Interesting visual illusions and exploration of culture-specific gender identity.

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★★

    Visits a dream-like trance on an audience as it leads and misleads them through a genuinely horrifying non-narrative containing, dare I say, the best queer allegory in cinematic history.

    Even better on a second viewing. No notes.

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  • At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking

    At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking

    A film that feels as if it has been tailor-made to win a festival award (which it did). Not an enjoyable experience; extremely slow with confusing metaphors and inconsistent with genre conventions. The touch of the filmmakers is very obvious in places, and it breaks the authenticity. It feels almost exploitative to record this extremely lonely and unhappy individual for what amounts to a documentary that lacks a real narrative beyond its portrayal of isolation. I did not learn anything…

  • Song of the Sea

    Song of the Sea

    ★★★★½

    Dare I say, the best brother-sister film in history?

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