Category: 2010s
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This synth-heavy yet ultimately disappointing love letter to 1980s “sex = death” stories predicts the future of horror, but falls flat on its message. The camera spins around as a barely dressed girl wearing red high heels sprints out of her house. Despite her parents’ concern, she grabs her car keys and frantically drives out…
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In Stalinist Poland, composer Wiktor discovers Zula, a young woman who aspires to be a performer after receiving probation for killing her father. After she successfully auditions for a role in the ensemble, she and Wiktor fall in love, but their love is put to the test after Wiktor leaves for Paris. Many years later,…
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Watching Sicario (2015) was an invigorating experience for me. It was an intense action thriller while also being a subtle meditation on revenge, in ways that I hadn’t ever really considered before. The most intriguing aspect of the movie was the character of Alejandro, whom I saw as an area where the intersections between revenge…
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