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No Other Land 2024
“Somebody watches something, they’re touched, and then..?”
An urgent and undeniably important film with an idealistic heart. It believes in the power of story telling and of documentary making as a political act. It’s harrowing but hopeful.
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I'm Still Here 2024
What if This is Us was set in Brazil during the military dictatorship?
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The Last Dolphin King 2022
This is the opposite of Black Fish.
The film wastes its time trying to pretend a conspiracy has taken place when in fact a man publicly falls from grace and commits suicide. This is tragic for his family and the role social media plays is horrendous.
The film accuses the media of character assassination and becomes committed to the character resurrection of a man who made a career out of keeping dolphins captive. The story of animal abuse and captivity becomes a side plot.
Activists become the villains, dolphin trainers becomes the victims and actual dolphins get shoehorned in somewhere in between all this.
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The Substance 2024
The Substance is to hagsploitation what Revenge was to rape revenge. Coralie Fargeat doesn’t “subvert” these sub-genres of horror, but embraces them to excess for a caricature effect.
The film takes inspiration from horror classics like The Fly, Society, and The Shining but also feels in conversation with Greta Gerwig’s recent, commercial, blockbuster, Barbie. Despite being so referential The Substance still manages to be unpredictable and unique.
Brilliantly titled, The Substance, embraces excess and emptiness in equal measure and exposes capitalism’s…
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