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  The Human Surge 3 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Oct 2024

  From InRO’s Best of 2024 feature:

  As discursively, obsessively set piece-driven — set pieces of sounds, cuts, and camera movements — as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3 is inextricable from its technical background. The warp of its lensing points to its source material: 360-degree footage re-directed via VR headset, a method that would be a mere gimmick if not for the ecstatically unruly, unpredictable, and oneirically suggestive performers that waypoint and wander through its frames,…

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  A Traveler's Needs 2024

  Watched 06 Oct 2024

  From InRO’s Best of 2024 feature:

  The rare Hong Sangsoo protagonist to hold no stable profession, Iris (Isabelle Huppert) is a character who, despite using introspective phrases to teach French to her Korean students, is so deliberately impersonal that when she exits a scene halfway through the film by disappearing, this registers as something plausible within the world Hong has built around her. (Huppert, in interviews, has furthered this reading, describing Iris as an entity halfway between a witch and…

Popular reviews

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  Jungle Cruise 2021

  ★★ Watched 28 Jul 2021

  Wrote about the Collet-Serra auteurism question for Seattle Screen Scene.

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  Us 2019

  Watched 24 Mar 2019

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