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  • Rosa de Areia
  • L'Avventura
  • Antigone
  • Here and Elsewhere

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  • Fortini/Cani

    ★★★½

  • Stars in My Crown

    ★★★★

  • Canyon Passage

    ★★★★

  • Bitter Victory

    ★★★★

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    ★★★½

    It's a task itself to reckon with Killers of the Flower Moon. The latest from Martin Scorsese, clocking at nearly three and a half hours long, is a colossal tale of the sociopathy of American history, an intimate and historical look at the murders that ravaged the Osage nation in 1920s Oklahoma. Upon this grand scale, "Killers" sets to bring to light a horrific and shameful chapter hidden far too long in a mainstream, white-centric culture. For Scorsese, who has…

  • Yi Yi

    Yi Yi

    ★★★★½

    It starts with a wedding and ends with a funeral. To limit Yi Yi as just another foreign drama would be doing a great disservice to Edward Yang's final opus, a sprawling yet heartbreakingly intimate look into the lives of a Taiwanese family. But just about any simple plot synopsis hardly does this any justice. To summarize feels reductive; putting any of this into words is impossible, so much of its power justly indescribable. Nothing feels out of place, Yang…

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  • Stars in My Crown

    Stars in My Crown

    ★★★★

    Only God Was Above Us

  • Canyon Passage

    Canyon Passage

    ★★★★

    Movies used to look this good??

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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★½

    Major. Truly marvellous something like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse even exists, I think I got goosebumps from the opening alone. A technical marvel from an animation standpoint, somehow improving upon its landmark predecessor in the department. The phenomenal work animators have put into this has to be acknowledged. Just stunning—refining, upping and mastering the blend of stylistic animation required, seamlessly incorporated, overwhelming; sensory overload at times but breathtaking. Mind-blowing artistry at its most expressive and creative. 

    Yet beyond the awe-spiring…

  • Spring Breakers

    Spring Breakers

    ★★★½

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