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Enter the Void 2009
If Eraserhead is Lynch’s “most spiritual film”, this is Noe at his most spiritual and redemptive. In all his work, the Old Testament, angry God is ever-present; actions always have consequences (tunnel scene in Irreversible only happens because Vincent Cassel acts like an asshole at the party; Love’s threesome ruins man’s life; here, your queer little friend sets you up only because you fucked his desperate mom, and, on a larger scale, your sister ends up trapped in Japanese hell because…
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Sharp Objects 2018
For the first couple episodes, I actually thought this might be something special - downplay the most typical millennial storyline (troubled, drug/alcohol abusing, writer/journalist explores the troubled childhood that made her such a troubled adult) in favor of revitalizing Southern Gothicism, ala True Detective S. 1, and only touching on that oh so troubled past through some very, very well-done editing. By episode 4 I should have known I was hoping for too much, by the Calhoun Day episode I…
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This Place Rules 2022
Really Andrew? You gonna make us wait 2 years for the most overly-simplified thing you’ve ever made? Was it the HBO money? The A24 money? I’m disappointed, friend.
