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simonsmiraudo

Favorite films

  • The Red Shoes
  • Margaret
  • Dogtooth
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day

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  • Warfare

  • The Rule of Jenny Pen

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    A mostly fun and kind-of interesting sci-fi flick that is neither wacky nor punchy enough to leave the kind of mark we'd expect from Bong Joon-ho.

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★½

    A sleek, sinewy and very sensual thriller that has a lot of fun playing psychosexual games with its stars, and us too.

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  • No Way Out

    No Way Out

    ★★★½

    Fantastically fun ending, they totally got me.

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★★

    “We seldom stop to think we are creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because we wear the water-filled space suits of our skin.” - Arthur C. Clarke

    I thought about that quote a lot during The Substance, and how complicated our relationship is to the miracle vessel that is our body; how it ultimately betrays us, but not before we betray it first.

    I also thought of another quote, from Garth Marenghi: “I know writers who use…

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