Screen Anarchy

Busan 2024 Review: THE LAND OF MORNING CALM, Grim Coastal Drama Offers Satisfying Character Portrait
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Following his intriguing debut The Girl on a Bulldozer, which screened at the Busan International Film Festival in 2021, directed Park Ki-woong returns to the festival with the New Currents competition title The Land of Morning Calm. Set far away...
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Busan 2024 Review: KIKE WILL HIT A HOME RUN, and So Does This Kaurismaki-esque Korean Indie Delight
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Possibly the highlight among the new Korean Indies on show at the Busan International Film Festival this year (though this critic hasn't quite seen everything yet), Kike Will Hit a Home Run is a quirky, charming and assured follow-up from...
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TERRIFIER 3 Banned to Minors Under 18 in France
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If you're under the age of 18 in France and you were itching to see Terrifier 3 in the cinemateques, looks like you're shit outta luck.   The Classification Committee over in France has recommended a ban on the film...
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HAPPINESS 4K Review: Todd Solondz’ Confrontational Black Comedy Gets a Gorgeous Upgrade
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The Criterion Collection plays hero once again with their recent 4K UHD release of Todd Solondz’s 1998 sophomore feature, Happiness. The film had long languished on a pitiful non-anamorphic window-boxed DVD from Lionsgate and fans have been clamoring for an...
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New York 2024 Review: STRANGER EYES, Sex, Lies, and Videotape
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When a little girl vanishes straight from the playground, her parents Junyang (Wu Chien-ho) and Peiying (Anicca Panna) start a search that doesn’t provide any leads. That is, until they start getting DVDs with the footage of the family doing...
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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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