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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
My freshman year of college, I discovered Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The show had ended a few years earlier by that point, so I was a bit late to the game, but I became immediately obsessed. It was a point in my life where I was feeling lost and alone, and these characters who were so well drawn felt more real to me than my real life. I practically lived in the worlds of Buffy and Angel for much of…
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
Furiosa had the impossible task of following up the greatest action film of this century. So rather than trying to top the breathless, non-stop spectacle of that film, Miller pivots and tells a quieter story, an epic tale of revenge, but also one of hope.
This sprawling story is tonally different than anything Miller has done before, even though it contains a lot of the individual pieces that signify a 'Mad Max' story:
The silent, stoic hero
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Novocaine 2025
Some truly inspired kills in this fun and funny action romp that entirely hinges on Jack Quaid's awkwardly charming performance. With the amount of dumb decisions and borderline psycopathic behavior the character displays, it would have been very easy for the character to lose the audience's sympathies. But somehow, Quaid keeps you rooting for him the whole way through!
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Three Identical Strangers 2018
While this is a bizarrely fascinating story, it is presented as a series of "big reveals", without really digging into the emotional trauma of the situation.
Facts are presented in a signposted manner, such that otherwise throw-away lines scream "this will be important later", making each reveal feel like a clinical piece of a puzzle, rather than an event that had a real emotional impact on the individuals at the heart of the story.
In the end, you are left feeling like you heard a sensationalist story to sprinkle into dinner conversation, but didn't really learn anything new about humanity.
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Suspiria 2018
Suspiria is art-house horror at its most pretentious and impenetrable, but if you can resonate on its unique wavelength, you will find a film experience like no other this year.
The plot is simple, and borrows its basic premise from Dario Argento's 1977 masterwork: Susie Bannion, a young woman from small-town America, arrives at the Markos Dance Academy in Berlin and soon discovers that it is run by a coven of witches. This simple story masks a sprawling, thematically dense…
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