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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
What an uncomfortable viewing experience. The whole time I was double checking my controller to make sure it wasn't accidentally on 1.5x speed...and yet, I was writhing in my seat counting the minutes until it was over. Not the winter solstice vibe I was hoping for at all. 0 stars
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Come one, come all, and watch Emma Stone eat, puke, and fuck her way to glory in this fantastical new film from director Yorgos Lanthimos. For years, Yorgos has been building a reputation as a filmmaker devoted to unconventional storytelling, exploring characters who themselves subvert the conventions of the worlds he has created for them (see: The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite). In Poor Things, these ideas are revisited and refined into a raunchy and deeply…
To say I hate this movie would be inaccurate; for indeed, I simply cannot understand how it ever got made. It continuously normalizes violent behavior, both sexual and homicidal, with its inhumanely lighthearted tone, showing virtually no value towards human life, and its attempt to resolve all of its twists and turns through this backwards world by imposing a high-school health class video moral only further alienates the viewer. Laughing completely in the face of emotion and healing, the "dark"…