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Recent reviews

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  The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2024

  ★★★ Watched 01 Oct 2024

  62nd NYFF- Main Slate

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  The Curse 2023

  ★★½ Watched 13 Oct 2023

  NYFF / World Premiere

Popular reviews

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  Wonder Woman 1984 2020

  Watched 31 Dec 2020

  Instead of watching this blatantly islamophobic trash, here are 5 incredible middle eastern films to watch instead that don’t star a former IDF soldier: 
  1. 5 Broken Cameras 
  2. Ambulance 
  3. Capernaum 
  4. Close Up 
  5. Salt of this Sea 
  Also, if you don’t know why this film is incredibly problematic, I highly suggest reading Hadidi’s recent article “Wonder Woman’s Middle Eastern Stereotypes Should Have Stayed in the 1980’s” on Slate.

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  Scenes from a Marriage 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Nov 2020

  “I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically… I want to give them a blow in the small of back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency” -Bergman

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