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  • The Act of Killing
  • I Am Cuba
  • The World, the Flesh and the Devil
  • The Guns

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  • The Hips of J.W.

    ★★½

  • The Northman

  • Thelma

    ★★

  • Reconstruction #61 / Bangkok

    ★★★★

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  • The Hips of J.W.

    The Hips of J.W.

    ★★½

    perfectly captures the feeling of being trapped in a conversation with an older dude at a coffee shop or something

  • The Northman

    The Northman

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • Occupied City

    Occupied City

    ★½

    The vibe of humans of New York overlaid with terse reminders that, once, FASCISM EXISTED HERE! It feels like the entire point this film is making is that the Netherlands continued existing after 1945. A completely banal point I can’t do anything with. In the audience Q&A, McQueen said his film was not a history lesson, but a meditation. A series of bare facts, of murders and executions and Nazi terror, sounding over thematically disjointed images of contemporary life, often…

  • The Act of Killing

    The Act of Killing

    ★★★★★

    No film gets right to the edge of the absurdity and brutality of class warfare and imperialism like this. Asking the perpetrators of genocidal killing to interrogate their own actions, and then to reenact them in a completely ambivalent series of setpieces, all interspersed with observations of contemporary power relations. The violence that is the reference of the Act of Killing haunts every frame, showing how it never really ended. It collapses action and reenactment, memory and propaganda. The whole film is an attempt to capture the surreality of the genocidaires living prosperous lives, ruling and being celebrated, and it succeeds almost perfectly.

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