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Recent reviews

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Dec 2023

  a genuine dystopian fantasy not just in its futurist medical architecture …..equal parts grotesque and somehow modest while retaining cronenbergian flair…but in how its stilted characterizations impose on you the gravity of the nigh-primordial physiological changes at the heart of the narrative. every character nervily and breathlessly preoccupied with bodily function in a skin-crawling but ultimately compelling way,not least kristen stewart who reaches levels of horny white girl hitherto unknown. it’s a deceptively nimble script as well, weaving from art…

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  Watched 21 Oct 2023

  kind of transcendent

Popular reviews

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  Sorry to Bother You 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Aug 2022

  Confident but not altogether revelatory indictment of late stage capitalism 
  Perhaps it’s most interesting satirical conclusion is the illusion of ascent offered to the most talented,useful members of the underprivileged. The illusion that they are better,have a chance at a seat at the high table and that they can afford to “watch and root for revolution from the sidelines” only to arrive at the foot of the table to discover that they are little more than ,at best, a novelty…

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  Synecdoche, New York 2008

  ★★★★ Rewatched 14 Dec 2022

  did you see that? I was trying to crash the car more ambivalently