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‘The Memory of Butterflies’ Review: A Thorny Unveiling of Colonial Exploitation
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Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski’s film boldly exposes the hypocrisies of Western liberal intervention. The post ‘The Memory of Butterflies’ Review: A Thorny Unveiling of Colonial Exploitation appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Mickey 17 Review: Bong Joon Ho’s Sci-Fi Comedy is an Oddly Manipulative, Self-Congratulatory Parable
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Is Mark Ruffalo giving a Trump impression? It’s early into Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 when the actor struts into the frame in a velvety blazer, wife Ylfa (Toni Collette) in tow, gloating as a crowd stands and claps like...
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‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Review: Putting ‘Cinderella’ Through the Body-Horror Wringer
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The film’s style is measured, not just maximalist, when it comes to body horror. The post ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Review: Putting ‘Cinderella’ Through the Body-Horror Wringer appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Music (Original Score)
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Better luck in the other music category, Emilia Pérez. The post Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Music (Original Score) appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Shudder in March: RULE OF JENNY PEN, BLOODY AXE WOUND, And STARVE ACRE
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Once we have all survived the most lovey dovey of days on the yearly calendar we may turn our attention to what our friends at Shudder have planned for us during the month of March.    Highlight films are the...
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Berlinale Review: Hot Milk Offers a Marvelous Look at Maternal Trauma
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A mother-daughter relationship is rarely a love story, at least not in any of the ways art has dramatized it thus far. Sure, a mother loves her daughter deeply (and vice-versa), but it is a sentiment defined by ambivalence and...
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‘Hot Milk’ Review: Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Stubbornly Languorous Mother-Daughter Drama
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By the time it reaches its close, Hot Milk has long since spoiled into something rancid. The post ‘Hot Milk’ Review: Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Stubbornly Languorous Mother-Daughter Drama appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Sundance 2025 Review: RAINS OVER BABEL, Singularly Enthralling Retro-Futuristic Queer Fantasy
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In the retro-futuristic, pop-punk imagination of Spanish Columbian writer-director Gala del Sol (Natalia Hermida) and her unmissable, queer-coded feature-length debut, Rains Over Babel (Llueve Sobre Babel), Cali, Colombia exists in a sublime liminal space, at the crossroads between the real...
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A KNIGHT’S WAR Official Trailer: Black Fawn Picks up Canadian Sword & Sorcery Flick For Distro on Home Soil
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A lone medieval knight follows a mysterious woman to a forbidden realm to help her battle an army of demons and steal the power of the gods. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sundance 2025 Review: 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA, Brutal Realities of Modern Warfare
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Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov offers an unvarnished and unflinching look at the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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