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Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment 1985
I'll give credit to a gore film that successfully nauseates me. I don't think Devil's Experiment is actually trying to emulate a snuff film, both because most of the shots aren't from any of the killers' perspectives and because the cinematography mostly roots the viewer in the victim's experience. It's hard to call a movie like this well-paced, but it was, and it's 100 times more disturbing than The Human Centipede or other overproduced gore schlock.
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A Complete Unknown 2024
Timothée Chalamet holds this movie together by himself. He turns Bob Dylan into a surprisingly intuitive and endearing character: he's just here to smoke cigarettes and sing songs. I think framing the entire main conflict around Dylan's switch to electric massively dampens the dramatic potential of a story like this, but the movie was fun.
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The Handmaiden 2016
The Handmaiden is a modern masterpiece. It's a quintessential rendition of the three-act structure while also being totally subversive. The performances are a perfect blend of strong composure and that Park Chan-wook satirical delivery. The art direction is flawless and probably the best I've seen in any film. The cinematography, especially the character blocking, is mind-blowing; it's incredibly refined without being restricted to Fincher-esque rigidity. The writing is extremely clever and never stays in one genre for too long. The…
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Pulp Fiction 1994
There was a point during this movie when I asked myself, "Would I be enjoying these scenes this much if they were in a different movie?" And that's the moment when I realized that Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece by virtue of the fact that these scenes wouldn't happen in any other movie, or at least not effectively so.
No other movie would have one of its central conflicts be that a gangster's wife mistakes the protagonist's heroin for cocaine…
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