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Top 20 films of 2018
The unlucky few which deserve a special mention: The bizarre headtrip Mandy, the muted excellence of Leave No Trace, Saulnier’s moody Hold the Dark, the pulpy brilliant first hour of Bad Times at the El Royale, the brutal beat-em-up The Night comes for us. And equally the ones i missed that would have seriously challenged: Shoplifters, BlacKkKlansman, The House…
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First Reformed review
Paul Schrader’s First Reformed is a brutally honest personal expression of despair. A powerful worldly outcry taps into the hopelessness of the pressing environmental crisis. First Reformed unmasks the raging hypocrisy, corporate gluttony and shady morality that has left us on the ravines of extinction. Schrader’s remarkable feat here is to channel these existential themes…
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Hereditary review
The recurring motif of a detailed miniaturist home has been etched in my mind ever since seeing Hereditary. It’s a troubling metaphor for Ari Aster’s intricate yet generation spanning horror film. For all its sudden shriek inducing terror; Hereditary spawns a far deeper well of psychological trauma. Aster looks in through the looking glass on…
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Top 20 films of 2018
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First Reformed review
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Hereditary review
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