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“A rabbit hole of a movie, inviting viewers on a dizzying plunge through love, loss and, finally, consciousness itself,” wrote Ann Hornaday in 2004. “How sweetly ironic that it would turn out to be the perfect movie about love's inevitable imperfections.”

Read the full archival review here.

Parasite

Parasite

★★★★★

“With ‘Parasite,’ Bong’s finest work to date, the 50-year-old director clearly articulates a throughline that has been present in all his previous work: there’s no war but the class war,” wrote Hau Chu in 2019. 

Read the full review here.

Moana 2

Moana 2

★★½

“The Disney musical sequel ‘Moana 2’ is, like David Lynch’s surreal adult masterpiece ‘Mulholland Drive’ before it, a repurposing of material originally intended for the small screen,” writes Chris Klimek.

PSA: the follow-up to the Dwayne Johnson-headlined hit does not share any other Lynchian traits.  

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Eephus

Eephus

★★★★★

“Pitched high and slow, ‘Eephus’ is as lovely as they come, and it may leave you bamboozled at the plate, happily wondering what the heck just happened,” writes Ty Burr. 

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“Susan Chardy’s performance is so emotionally removed as to seem abstract at first, and “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” plays games with the viewer by alluding to Shula’s (Chardy) trauma with shards of flashbacks and surreal visions, the most powerful of which sees the house of mourners steadily swamped by a rising tide of water. The actress’s natural regality plays as an aloofness that is tested again and again until it finally melts into righteousness, and director Rungano Nyoni lets the visual and thematic pieces of her film’s dramatic puzzle fall into place gradually,” writes Ty Burr. 

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Opus

Opus

★★

“Opus,’ the feature debut of writer-director Mark Anthony Green, appears to have a lot going for it on the surface: an up-and-coming young actress in the lead, an admired older star as backup, a score by a pop music survivor. What it doesn’t have is a story that makes a lick of narrative sense, characters a viewer cares about, laughs to match its jokes, chills to match its scares or an emotional connection to anything that happens on-screen,” writes Ty Burr.

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Novocaine

Novocaine

★★

“Even with a gimmick engineered to orchestrate endless bursts of Looney Tunes-style hyperviolence, ‘Novocaine’ lives up to its name, all right — a tedious action-comedy so numbingly bland, you feel the pain of its 110-minute run time even as its protagonist can’t feel a thing,” writes Jen Yamato

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Black Bag

Black Bag

★★★★

“With nothing more to prove and a proper aversion to bloat, Soderbergh has achieved the grace of the old studio greats, turning out film after film with a high rate of return because that’s the reason he was put on Earth. ‘Black Bag’ is a movie about pros made by a pro, and either you’re up to the challenge or you’re not,” writes Ty Burr.

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