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The Royal Hotel 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
that catharsis is deliberately hollow---here is a film whose gradual peeling back of structural misogyny only concedes that, sometimes, overcoming is futile and the best plan of action is to burn the whole structure down and walk away.
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Anatomy of a Fall 2023
a lot of this film's marketing is placing the emphasis on 'did she kill her husband', which i understand is an enticing draw, but i'm not sure triet is all too focused on providing a definitive answer to that question: she's more interested in the consequences of being accused in the first place, and how that affects (or, in daniel's case, stunts the growth of) those in the accused's inner circle. in turn, Anatomy of a Fall plays out like…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
here are a people, and here are their photos: look at their faces, look at their clothes, captured in black and white for eternity. here is their land; here is their oil. here is their oppressor, and here is their assimilation. it's mollie's story until it's not, idyllic tableaus and understated performance pointedly engulfed by white man's violence and dicaprio's thousand-ham gurning. if the genocide is slow enough and backed by western powers, did it ever exist in the first…
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Club Zero 2023
hausner's follow-up to Little Joe is more of the same: stilted lanthimos-lite performances, a stale register, a discordant score, a complete refutation of coherent, progressive sociopolitics. on the surface, Club Zero is an eye-rollingly blunt film about the slippery slope of faith, fake news and authority; yet while these themes are usually conveyed in patronising, evasive fashion, hausner obscures this by 1) making the subtext entirely textual, culminating in that pisstake of an ending, and 2) associating these themes with…
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