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The Royal Hotel 2023
Much too preoccupied with its own veneer of simplicity to ever bother telling a complete story with complete characters. The film’s supposed bread and butter is its repetitive presentation of the constant, everyday indignities women face, particularly in the kind of environment depicted — problem is, presentation only takes you so far when there are no other courses coming afterward. I stress that this relatively restrained approach makes thematic sense and is admirable in theory, and possibly would be acceptable…
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Fair Play 2023
A tight, well constructed thriller that effectively pushes its concept to its psychological extremes. Sure, it gets a bit silly by the end, but that comes with the territory and I very much appreciate a film that makes a concerted effort to escalate and build upon itself. Dynevor and Ehrenreich are both completely game too. Overall feels a tad bit unfair to ding this film for not being something it's not, i.e. an erotic thriller. Hate to break it, but…
