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Triangle of Sadness 2022
They should have used their last flare to signal a better editor.
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The Zone of Interest 2023
A chilling, hypnotic masterpiece. While it is true that “The Zone of Interest” does not show the “full” horrors of the camps, there are horrors enough on screen. From the obvious, like gunshots or screams in the background, to the more subtle, like a train snaking its way behind the garden wall at a party, the audience’s knowledge is leveraged to give small details a sickening weight. The main characters, whose fluency in expressing their place in the Nazi project…
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Civil War 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
An ably executed disaster movie that suffers from just the wrong amount of politics. Civil War’s preoccupation with the aesthetic of sectarian violence neglects the political nature of the disaster. Its attitude is at best incurious and at worst dismissive. The first 100 minutes are of scenes of private violence, showing the breakdown of society. Politics are never addressed. This is fine, if you are purely interested in transposing the scenes Americans view in dustier, browner countries every day. In…
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