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The Squid and the Whale 2005
But like does the little kid turn into a serial killer…
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Triangle of Sadness 2022
With every film since the excellent Force Majeure, Östlund seems to learn exactly the worst lessons from his preceding movie, going broader instead of more specific, histrionic instead of nuanced, simple instead of complicated. Do I need a movie to tell me that influencers are vapid and oligarchs and arms dealers are awful? Hell no. I get it. Do I need a scene in which two characters literally tell me the movie’s subtext over a loudspeaker? No. I get that…
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