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  • The Substance
  • Anora
  • Flow
  • Hit Man

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  • Buscapé

    ★★★

  • The Warning - Live at Teatro Metropólitan

    ★★★★

  • Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

    ★½

  • Iliza Shlesinger: A Different Animal

    ★½

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  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    ★★½

    This could have worked a lot better if it was a real movie, I mean without all that pathetic singing. Still, Karla Sofia Gastón and Zoe Saldaña did a really good job carrying all this absolute nonsense on their backs.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★

    Skarsgård really does an interesting job recreating a character that resembles a cross between Count Orlok and the original Dracula, and I was especially impressed with his voice acting (as well as its sound design), although nothing beats the silent Max Schreck. Overall, it's not as bad as Eggers' usual crap, but it's still a weak and completely worthless remake with a crass cinematography hampered by one of the worst color gradings of last year. It lacks the impact of…

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  • Dune

    Dune

    It's probably immeasurable the level of mediocrity that might have been needed to turn one of the most extraordinary science fiction novels ever written into such an ordinary screenplay, presented like a kind of a pilot episode or long preview of an upcoming shitty show. The planning, editing and music placement are so abnormally atrocious that it never feels like we're really watching a movie – it's more like a collection of loose fragments that never quite come together or…

  • No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care

    No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care

    ★★★

    The film is rather poor technically, it's essentially the work of a single author covering several fields with an explicitly low budget. However, I imagine it might be quite hard at this point to recruit a team and raise funds to develop something more elaborate, due to the constant intimidation from TQA2+ extremists who blindly advocate non-binary gender ideologies in opposition of most scientific discussions. Even so, despite production limitations, the content inspires honesty in approaching the current phenomenon of…

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