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I Like Movies 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
watched this as a sneak and as such got to appreciate how effective the beginning works especially for this format. the boys' assignment tape, with the words spelling its title looking like a jpeg enlarged past its prime, and the few people credited filling roles behind and in front of the camera, feels exactly like a student film, and, at that, a film made by a student who doesn't think his film school lecturers can teach him anything. i was…
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Women in Revolt 1971
maybe i'm looking at this with too modern a lense, but finding how this whole film's intended punchline was transmisogyny i don't feel particularly sorry about this.
did the leading trans* actresses deserve all the spotlight imaginable, absolutely! (the single star is for them and them alone) but i really wouldn't call this film a win in this regard. the caricature of feminism that's being presented is scarily close to modern terfism, with its focus on genitals and its failing…Translated from by
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Poor Things 2023
bride of reanimator slightly to the left if it was high art with a fix-it ending
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Sunny Days 1996
promoting an idol to an icon and symbol makes it easy to latch onto a two-dimensional image stripped of actual personhood. this is barely a film at all, rather some feel-good slice-of-life home videos glued together via, at times, odd editing choices which however allow the group кино and wiktor tsoi in particular to be human.
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