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A Complete Unknown 2024
"All I can do is be me... whoever that is." Bob Dylan said this in 1965. Or was it 2001? Maybe he never said it at all. Playing fast and loose with characters, and timelines, and history is all a very Dylan thing to do. The past is what you make it, and here, it happens to be at once very tidy in terms of narrative structure and character, but the performances truly carry this thing along, especially from Timothee…
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The Settlers 2023
A beautiful and brutal deconstruction of the western, where the course of empire exposes the savagery of the colonists rather than the indigenous population. As a small group of men patrol a massive estate, securing a sheep farm as they go to the far reaches of Tierra del Fuego, the outer limits of Chile and Argentina. The genocide of the Onas is portrayed with shocking intimacy rather than sweeping generalization, making it especially gut wrenching. First time director Felipe Gálvez…
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The Worst Person in the World 2021
It's depressing to see the sexist, manic pixie dream girl trope still slogged around the screen in 2021, especially to so much critical praise. But here we are. TWPITW is utterly pretentious filmmaking which goes to lengths to hide this fact, which makes it all the more galling; when you have a film that well exceeds two hours, ostensibly centered on a female character but whose *only* interactions are with men, it's pathetic. Renate Reinsve does the best with what…
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Judas and the Black Messiah 2021
The story and real life characters portrayed in this film are far more interesting and complex as well as inspiring and entertaining to watch than they are in this often basic, reduced and very Hollywood version of the radical and luminary leftists of the Black Panther party, led by chairman Fred Hampton in Chicago. The story ping pongs back and forth between Hampton, often too sleepily played by Daniel Kaluuya, older by a decade than Hampton was when he was…
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