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  • Princess Mononoke
  • Rashomon
  • The Straight Story
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  • What Rhymes With Toxic

    ★★★

  • Furies

    ★★★

  • Sound of Metal

    ★★★★½

  • Behemoth: Or the Game of God

    ★★★

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  • What Rhymes With Toxic

    What Rhymes With Toxic

    ★★★

    Timely message, delivered with sledgehammer-bluntness in an animation style that, while memorable, would probably connect more effectively if that darn turtle wasn't so FREAKY.

  • Furies

    Furies

    ★★★

    Solid little action film that's actually a prequel to Furie (Although it really stands on its own) - there's genuinely eye-popping use of color, particularly the green tint throughout a lot of the scenes that probably you'll either really like or hate (I liked it, myself) and Veronica Ngo has a remarkably dynamic camera for the body-on-body fight scenes, particularly the finale, that makes up, more or less, for a remarkable motorcycle chase scene in the middle that just doesn't work.

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  • Lemon

    Lemon

    ★½

    A person could accuse this film of many things, but false advertising isn't one of them.

  • Shoplifters

    Shoplifters

    ★★★★½

    There's a scene about the midway of the film, where Sakura Ando is casually wearing a shirt with the quote 'Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed' while she talks to her sister in the kitchen-the camera doesn't particularly linger on the shirt or its caption, although the scene lasts long enough to give the viewer a chance to read it, but the more I think about it, the more central it…