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On the mechanics of tracking trauma. Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones star as two men of few words. The former - a killing machine gone rogue. The latter - a teacher tasked to find him while struggling with the lethal knowledge he's provided to his student. What ensues is William Friedkin at his surgical best: pure elemental cinematic fury. A chase movie that rarely halts for a second of breathing room. The catharsis and brutality of the…

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Very strange. Not entirely sure if it's fully successful, but it's memorable for every second of its 71-minute run-time. Very much a hand-made stop motion film, it's somehow even more overtly surreal than something like the Quay brothers would craft. So inventive in depicting weird, fucked up fairy-tale imagery. The social messaging is also quite strong, and just as carefully designed as the physicality of the stop-motion. Production of this film spanned over 13 years, and it shows in…