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Geographies of Solitude 2022
Geographies of Solitude is an organic balancing act between the more conventional documentary forms... and something weirder and wilder... altogether. Read my full piece.
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Halloween Kills 2021
It's obvious watching this that there was no real plan for a trilogy, as this middle chapter feels both meandering and pointless. Worst of all is how everything stops dead for the tacked-on and largely incoherent 'mob justice' social commentary.
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The Worst Person in the World 2021
Renata Reinsve's electric presence isn't enough to overcome a frustrating script that cares less about developing her character's interiority than peddling tedious Gen-X satire (yoga, slackers, and feminists are targets) before collapsing into a sincerely maudlin (and entirely unearned) final third that shifts focus away from her.
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Ahed's Knee 2021
I adore Lapid's impressionistic camerawork, it's unpredictable, spastic, invigorating, and always thematically appropriate. It's perplexing then, given how much he communicates visually, that he chose to unspool every bit of subtext into the dialogue of this one.
