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  The Five Devils 2022

  

  lex

  olfactory memory is often like waking up from a vivid dream and immediately forgetting it, but left with the feeling of it. this imagery, these sensory experiences carry more weight…

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  The People's Joker 2022

  

  Will Sloan ★★★★½

  Glad I made the impulsive decision to see this very funny movie at its TIFF Midnight Madness premiere before its other festival screenings were abruptly cancelled, presumably because Bruce Wayne…

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  You Can Live Forever 2022

  

  lex 1

  An incredibly successful 'coming of age' 'religious' lesbian installment. There is a reason that there are so many, and why we are drawn to them. Religion is a construction of…

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  Boston Strangler 2023

  

  Sally Jane Black 3

  Why is this green? Why is it muted blue and yellow, a lifeless mess? I know there's a lot of technical reasons, a lot of reasons involving studios being cheap…

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  Chile '76 2022

  

  lex

  -i don’t want to be a doll
  -what do you want to be?
  -a wild animal

  During the q&a the director mentioned the mixing of colors, and how she consciously…

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  Martin Eden 2019

  

  Michael Sicinski ★★★★

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  Pietro Marcello is a director who, for me, has been hovering in the "interesting" zone for quite some time. The work I have seen from him up to this…

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  Martin Eden 2019

  

  Sara Clements ★★★★★ 3

  I'm absolutely floored by Martin Eden. A poetic, dream-like film that feels like something out of Italy's golden age of neorealism. It certainly looks at the changes to the Italian…

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  Martin Eden 2019

  

  Neil Bahadur ★★★★ 6

  "..and neoliberalism, which is of course a result of individualism." - Pietro Marcello, in his interview with Jordan Cronk from the latest Cinema Scope

  Maybe more on this later, but…