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Better Man 2024
Crass, obvious, and as subtle as an atomic bomb, saved only by the engaging figure of Robbie and, to be fair, the fucking sword fight scene. Once you get past that and the chimpanzee conceit, you find that all that is left is a paint-by-numbers husk of a movie, with subjects such as depression and trauma used merely as tools to goad the audience into feeling something impersonating an emotional response.
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Anora 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I think the thing that alienates some people from Sean Baker’s films (and the thing that, for me, is what makes them so fascinating) is that he rarely if ever judges any of his characters. Most films include some sort of value judgement, implicit if not explicit, on the protagonists. but Baker tends to simply present us with a load of damaged people, constructed and constrained equally by their lot in life and by how others perceive them, and then…
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975
Really glad I saved this for when I could see it in cinema. It’s kind of exhilarating seeing a story that could only ever make sense as a film, truly utilising the exceptional parts of the medium for full effect. Hypnotic and painful. Loved it.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
Can’t believe I waited this long to watch this because I subconsciously thought it would be a bit quaint and soft by today’s standards. This is so fucking disturbing. Fucking hell I am exhausted
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