Review: The Killer (2024)
With how prevalent remakes and reimaginings have been for the last… forever, I wouldn’t hold it against you to groan at the very ...
Tag: France
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Oscar Watch 2023: Anatomy of a Fall
It’s been something of a trip to go into these Best Picture nominees with next to no information. The only thing I knew ...
Movies
Tribeca Review: Employee of the Month
It goes without saying, but sexism sucks. It shouldn’t be controversial to say that a woman should make as much money as a ...
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The Cannes film festival is basically dead this year
Just last week, officials for the Cannes International Film Festival made an announcement that its event would either happen in person or not ...
Reviews
Tribeca Review: The Elephant and the Butterfly
A fun fact about myself that I both love and hate is that I am French. I love the culture, I love the ...
Review: My Life as a Zucchini
There’s this pervasive idea that children are resilient, that they’re able to cope well even in dire circumstances. In stories about forlorn kids, ...
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Review: Raw
While playing at film festivals last year, the hype over Raw was insane. Writer/director Julia Ducournau’s coming-of-age horror/cannibal drama purportedly caused audience members ...
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Review: The Lobster
I still haven’t gotten around to seeing Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth, though I intend to. The blackly surreal 2009 film was nominated for a Best ...
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Review: Reality
I imagine that the script for Reality is caustic. That it antagonizes the reader and makes for something that is even less comprehensible on ...
Review: Two Days, One Night
Sometimes you watch a movie and you immediately know how you’re going to feel about it. There’s something about the atmosphere that it ...
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Review: What’s in a Name?
It’s a stereotype that the French are more cultured than Americans, but obviously that’s a hard claim to either prove or disprove. There ...