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Review: Hundreds of Beavers

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Hundreds of Beavers  isn’t just the best comedy released to the general...

Review: Creepy

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] With the possible exception of The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then...

Review: Alice, Sweet Alice

While Alice, Sweet Alice  (alternatively titled Communion and Holy Terror ) ostensibly takes place in the early 1960s, its themes are...

Review: Torso

I’ll say this for Torso : it wastes little time; within the first ten seconds  of the opening credits, a woman has already removed her...

Review: Master Gardener

Master Gardner  opens with the quintessential Paul Schrader image: a character in an otherwise empty room hunched over a writing desk,...

Review: She Is Conann

How to describe She Is Conann ? The film resists literalist readings, eschewing traditional narrative in favor of concocting a...

Review: Lingua Franca

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Near the conclusion of Isabel Sandoval’s quietly beautiful Lingua...

Review: The Tempest (1979)

The Tempest  epitomizes my favorite flavor of Shakespeare adaptation: lean, revisionist, and minimalistic (a musical number or two...

Review: Mikey and Nicky

I should have my head examined for sleeping on Mikey and Nicky for so long; it’s the exact flavor of old school indie cinema that I...

Review: Conquest

Conquest is dark even by the usual standards of the dark fantasy genre. Armies of savage beast-men roam the untamed wilderness,...

Review: Retake

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Japan Cuts frequently programs movies about amateur filmmakers—a...

Review: Mermaid Legend

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] When introducing Japan Cuts’ recent screening of Toshiharu Ikeda’s...

Review: The Box Man

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.] The Box Man is based on a Kobo Abe novel that is—according to my...

Review: a still place

Recently, I’ve noticed that some amateur critics online (particularly on Twitter, but elsewhere, as well) tend to evaluate films as...

Review: ZVP

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.] I somehow missed Junya Okabe’s ZVP when it was originally released on...

Review: Head

Star vehicles for musicians are hardly a rarity in Hollywood—after all, creatively bankrupt studio executives are perfectly willing to...

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