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  • The Watermelon Woman

    ★★★★

  • Wanda

    ★★★★

  • Werckmeister Harmonies

    ★★★★½

  • Snow White

    ★★½

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  • The Watermelon Woman

    The Watermelon Woman

    ★★★★

    Talk about leaving a singular imprint in film history about made-up history, Cheryl Dunye’s dissection of black female representation in Hollywood is fun and refreshing with sapphic themes and fleshed-out amalgamation of a would-be black film star of old hollywood. In this quasi documentary, aspiring filmmaker Cheryl Dunye takes the lack of representation and diversity, and the blatant discrimination that Black film actors had to face and have been facing in order to make it in Hollywood at heart and…

  • Wanda

    Wanda

    ★★★★

    A directorial debut of an actress-turned-filmmaker, writer and producer, Wanda is a singular and profound portrait of a woman’s aimlessness, stranded on society’s margins. Barbara Loden has the balls and taste to marry the narrative and form at its most grounded. What’s even more impressive is its themes that capture the ushering of women’s liberation with Loden’s uncompromising vision beaming at the core of it resulting to a richly textured and layered character study of a woman in her rock…

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  • Extrapolations

    Extrapolations

    ★★★½

    So much promise and great intentions and premise. Idk. Its lacklustre writing and over-ambitiousness is its downfall. Most of the actors phoned it in given the screenplay they’re working with.

    The world building and story-telling is all over the place. It usually irks me when a dystopian future concept doesn’t have that organic feel to it. Everything feels information-heavy, convoluted and sometimes contrived, and preachy. But hey I guess our planet is really fucked-up. Idk why it’s called climate change still it should climate fucked by now.

  • Boston Strangler

    Boston Strangler

    ★★★

    This movie will leave you hanging. I guess that speaks for the justice system huh

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