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  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

  • Dreams (Sex Love)

    ★★★★½

  • Maria

    ★★★

  • Bird

    ★★★★

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  • Certain Women

    Certain Women

    ★★★★½

    Lily Gladstone is so expressive.

  • MaXXXine

    MaXXXine

    ★★★½

    Works well as a movie about moviemaking, Hollywood, and as an hommage.

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  • Seven Psychopaths

    Seven Psychopaths

    ★★★

    Better than the German title suggests.
    Still, because I watched "Three Billboards..." by the same director a few weeks before, I now see some problematic patterns emerging, like unnecessary verbal racism.

  • The Green Fog

    The Green Fog

    ★★★★

    Fun! But too long for that fun to survive.
    The movie is easily explained: It's a re-telling of Hitchcock's "Vertigo" assembled from two or three dozen other films that were shot in San Francisco as well.
    If you don't know Vertigo, this will seem mostly experimental.
    If you have seen Vertigo (luckily I did just a few weeks ago), this is a lot of fun, especially in those moments when the footage deviates a lot from the source. But basically…