This one is mine:
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You can watch it here: www.entropycinema.com
Such a strange but likable film. The opening sequence feels plasticky, almost as if Netflix tacked it on purely to cut a trailer. It improves a lot after that, evolving into a mostly low-key criminal hang film with three great leads: Exarchopolous has the standout role as the smoldering wildcard (and this movie’s raison d’être is to create this role for her), but Laurent is reliably great as the old hand with secrets she can’t even tell her closest confidante,…
I had high hopes going in, as I'm always optimistic about finding another hidden gem each time I settle into an Oscilloscope release, but I grew to dislike this more and more with each passing minute. The visual techniques - primarily the pig-vomit color palette and the intermittent commercial-break cut-to-blacks, in addition to the generally thoughtless multi-cam approach to improv - begin at Irritating and progress to Irredeemable. And while the premise was clever and occasionally enjoyable, it all seems…