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Boiling Point 2021
A taught, anxiety inducing ride. The one shot never feels like a gimmick in the context. And for anyone who has ever worked in those environments, so much of it rings true. The critique of the way that media and restaurants have collided is blunt but convincing.
And there are never enough superlatives for a Stephen Graham performance.
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Spencer 2021
In some respects this is one of the more interesting horror movies of the past few years. Claustrophobic, surreal and threatening with the past as a trap for the unwary. References to The Shining are most prominent in this. Sandringham ad the stilted and frozen Overlook, Timothy Spall deliberately echoes the threatening Grady.
There are shifts away from this into mawkishness that seem to try to soften its social critique and end up jarring with the more powerful stilted or surreal tone that are the more interesting parts of the film.
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Saint Maud 2019
Haunting and powerful. A mesmerising exploration of trauma and belief. Cinema at its best.
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The Power of the Dog 2021
Campion’s common themes of loneliness, repressed desire and emotion interrogate the myths of the American West. As with Campion’s other work, what is repressed inevitably boils to the surface and the more it is repressed, the more violent it’s emergence.
Campion’s films are like cinematic Chekhov or Ibsen in their interrogation of human responses to the pressures of social and personal expectation. Utterly magnificent.
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