Category: film reviews

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Waltz with Bashir

Waltz with Bashir melds together documentary and narrative in order to present this disassociation between memory and reality for veterans long after the war.

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Host, The (2013)

Even with a solid concept to work with, Andrew Niccol does nothing to improve Stephenie Meyer’s messy and boring tale of aliens and kissing.

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Dans la Maison (2012)

Ozon’s latest is a voyeuristic tale of a young man who works his way into the house of a fellow student for the sake of crafting a story to tell his teacher that breaks the barrier between reader and writer.

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Room 237

A documentary all about those wacky theories your best friend read about online one night after watching Stanley Kubrick’s masterful horror film The Shining

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Sightseers (UK Film)

Ben Wheatley exceeds the expectations with his new indecorous comedy, skillfully mixing distinctive British humor, lurid crime, and an inviting weirdness, to depict an overwhelming love story stained by blood.

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Tootsie

It’s tough to be in an all man’s world, especially if you’re a man dressed up as a woman making it in an all man’s world.

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Helter Skelter (Japanese Film)

Helter Skelter follows a top idol star who undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries on different parts of her body to maintain the image she’s built herself as an icon of beauty, until the result of such processes begins taking a toll on her.

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Toilet (Japanese Film)

Toilets are important in Japan. And who’s better to talk about toilets than Naoko Ogigami’s often dry humor, especially if it’s going to be at the hand of Masako Motai.