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Donnie Darko 2001
it’s both a strength and a weakness that adolescence permeates every aspect of the film—not just the characters but also the jarring tonal shifts and often muddled storytelling, which to me seems to parallel the crazy manic hormonal highs and lows of one’s teenage years. equating convoluted storytelling with actual depth is a deeply adolescent perspective though, so it all kind of works here. maybe this was all intentional, but it’s honestly more likely that I’m being generous here and…
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Barbarian 2022
i’ve been singing the praises of this movie ever since it came out. and i love it, i really really do. i think the way it flawlessly weaves political commentary and themes of sexual violence in while gleefully reveling in its schlocky b-horror genre roots makes it something truly refreshing, especially in an era of self-serious, overly didactic horror movies that are so obsessed with proving that they have something important to say that they forget to be scary, entertaining,…
