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Alien 1979
How it took me this long to see Alien I can’t tell you, but everything runs on all cylinders here - particularly Ridley Scott, whom you can sense has complete control over its breathless escapism. Camerawork, effects, editing, acting - the whole game is played on expert with a quench for scares but a taste for wondrous thrill that elevates Alien from being a monster-house horror to pure cinematic delight.
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All of Us Strangers 2023
All of Us Strangers is pure poetry in motion, a play of light and darkness that pits people at the center of figurative and literal grief and unfurls into a profound display of love. Writer/director Andrew Haigh has an unwavering sense of his characters’ unsettled goals with no easy resolutions, and ever-so subtly hints at the gulf these relatively close people are in as its sly and unpredictable plot develops, through exquisite cinematic and editorial choices. It’s an elevated stage play,…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
The exactness to which Jonathan Glazer procures the horrors of the Holocaust in The Zone of Interest is what is most stunning, a seemingly liminal space that can capture what we don’t see or hear just as numbingly and terrifyingly as what we do, and our eyes and ears can only keep up with so much information that we can only pick and choose what we care to keep closest to our chest just so we can catch a breath. It’s…
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