Category: 2020s
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This story of folk songs and fateful queer romance is both a tearjerker and a clumsily structured narrative. 2025 has been a year full of cinema that has touched on music as a force of community and identity. In Sinners (2025), blues became a symbol of shared pain during the Jim Crow era that connected…
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Trans identity and Lynchian horror make a perfect match in this film, which subverts expectations to make a true existential story that will linger with you long after the credits roll. I knew that after I Saw The TV Glow (2024) ended, something inside of me changed. I’m a 22 year-old who just graduated college,…
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The directors of Talk To Me (2023) avoid the sophomore slump by crafting a compelling narrative full of grieving children and a haunting Sally Hawkins. One of the best scenes in 2023’s breakout horror film Talk to Me was the “Le Monde” séance, where teenagers experimented with drugs while allowing spirits to possess them through…
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In Jordan Peele’s third feature film Nope, capitalism is the main antagonist. Although it is never explicitly stated as such, the apparent need to rely on exploiting people and animals to create a spectacle for profit causes the downfall of many characters. One prominent example of this in the film takes place during the main…
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