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The White Ribbon 2009
at once well-trod territory for haneke as well as a departure from his earlier flicks, offering a muted humanism as a plausible though partial moral vision of the world. still tortures viewers with The Inexplicable Moral Terror, but a fascinating if long winded film that offers some bruegelian compositions in all their moral conundra
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Pulp Fiction 1994
superlative meta-study about THE MOVIES, but you already knew that
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Sue 1997
lonely and desperate vignette of a chronically unemployed woman in new york - really captures the fleeting suicidal ideation of being really alone in a city in which you barely know anyone, struggling needlessly to pay rent + find the succor that makes life worth living. also very much the product of a horny german man, a premise that is redeemed by Anna Thompson's coy and charming performance.
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Civil War 2024
Civil War is an offensive film. Offensive because it substitutes actual political stakes with empty sanctimony, offensive because Civil War shows journalism (at least as it is practiced stateside) to be as a parasitic practice lead by callous opportunists in a film where such opportunists are taken as beacons of bravery and courage. Its central narrative congeals around what amounts to a hunting trip to photograph a Trump-esque president before he gets inevitably Gaddafi'd by a coalition force of ambiguous…
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