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Recent reviews

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  When Evil Lurks 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Jun 2024

  One of those films that takes a mainstay of the horror genre (in this case, demonic possession) and approaches it in its own very specific local terms. Supernatural, but also ecological and political; the countryside as the most abandoned but also the most polluted of spaces.

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  Evil Dead Rise 2023

  ★½ Watched 13 Jun 2024

  Bad film.

Popular reviews

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  High Art 1991

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Apr 2022

  The fact that Rubem Fonseca adapted this screenplay from his own novel, in the process transposing his recurring detective-attorney Mandrake into a North American photojournalist, signals a rare form of mastery over both mediums.

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  Bellamy 2009

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Oct 2018

  Tampers with the usual ratios of professional/personal content in detective stories, foregrounding the personal, which in theory sounds unpromising for fans of the genre but is in fact mesmerising. Utterly compelling characterizations and relationships, this film is honeycombed with beautiful symmetries, circularities and resonances. Loved it.