Screen Anarchy

New York 2024 Review: APRIL, A Strange Manifestation
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Dea Kulumbegashvili's second feature is a challenging, feminist work, to say the least. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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BeyondFest 2024 Review: ZERO, Servicable Thriller With a Stern Message From It’s Creator
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Two Americans wake up in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, with bombs strapped to their chests. The timers on the vests tell them they have less than nine hours to find out why. Calling them #1 and #2 a mysterious...
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JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX Review: Sweet Psycho Romance Stuck in an Edgelord’s Mess
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Whether she's loved the character since she was a child or is making a calculated attempt at winning an acting Oscar, Lady Gaga's performance as the Joker universe's Harley Quinn is by far the best thing to come out of...
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LOOK BACK Review: Emotionally and Visually Beautiful Film, Undone by Melodrama
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It's no wonder that Look Back is highly anticipated by anime fans. The film is based on the manga of the same name by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto and is directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, whose resume includes working with...
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Friday One Sheet: ENTELEQUIAS
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With a tagline of "Imagination is not always perfect," Darío Autrán's Entelequias, if judged by its desaturated, asymmetrical, vertically distorted key art, looks to be playing in the narrow liminal space between Solaris and eXistenZ.  This poster eschews a standard credit...
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V/H/S BEYOND Review: Horror Anthology Goes to Outer Space and Back
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If it’s October, it’s practically Halloween and if it’s Halloween, then it’s time for Shudder’s horror-themed found footage anthology, V/H/S, to make its yearly return to the streaming service.  V/H/S Beyond, the fourth entry in as many years, its seventh...
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Vancouver 2024 Interview: SUPER HAPPY FOREVER Director Kohei Igarashi Talks Romantic Memory and Finding the Happy in the Sad
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People and places can leave an impression on us. In absence of one thing, we might find ourselves returning to the other for traces. Sano (Hiroki Sano) sits in his minimally adorned hotel room, staring blankly towards the light from...
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New York 2024 Review: THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, Striking Tale of Violence and Moral Compromises
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Iman (Misagh Zare) has just gotten the much-desired promotion, but asks his family to keep quiet about his new job: he is now an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. So, while the very real protests against the...
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NEW WAVE Review: Vietnamese-American Music Ripples Close to Home
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Like waves that come crashing on the seashore, except they keep crashing. New Wave The film enjoyed its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. The film opens Friday, October 4, at DCTV in New York, and October 25 at Laemmle...
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DAAAAAAL! Review: Dancing Between the Real and the Imagined
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Quentin Dupieux directed. Anaïs Demoustier, Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, Didier Flamand, and Romain Duris star. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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