A bravissim[o/a] LGBTQ+ tribute w. depth-heavy multi-perspective doc exposition on gender identity, vicissitude, oppression, existentialism, isolation, trans progres. activism: beautiful, sweeping, & impresionante as bucolic Italy countryside. 9.3/10.
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Category: Drama/Indie
Heojil Kyolshim (2022)
The Directorial Palme D’Or For 2022 Aggrandizes S. Korea’s Lengthy Resumé Of Viral Pedigree Cinema/TV; a serpentine mystery-thriller x mercury noir x wry comedy x romance w. anfractuous themes: woe, toxicity, gaslighting, lust. 9.2/10.
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Les Bonnes Étoiles [Broker] (2022)
Once-a-generation does a film release at such a perfect temporal amalgamation of politics & climate: baby box project at a time of Roe v. Wade chaos & farcical caper on community, faith, agency, ethics, $, trafficking,.. w. career role by Kang-ho. 8/10.
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Holy Spider (2022)
Brazen, Egregious, Milieu-Apropros Persian Noir/True-Crime Nightmare, Abassi’s wicked chastizement of evil banality & fundamentalist hypocrisy in mecca stuns – even if gets ~lost between axiom x amorality & weak courtroom-drama arc. 7.1/10.
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кит: The Whale (2022)
La Radrizzaré Lion D’Oro De Venezia 79, Aronofsky resurfaces w. characteristically heartbreaking, layered, complex psychology drama of compassion, gentle giantry, binge/guilt eating of hyperrevelance to 2000’s; Fraser’s career performance. 9.2/10.
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Everything, Everywhere,.. All At Once (2022)
The Most Hypercreative Project To Be Released At Cinemas In Eons, The Daniels’ x A24’s 10+ Year Ev. Bagel: Dada Absurdism, A+ Comedy-Drama, Martial Arts, Nihilism, Existentialism, API Identity, Sci-Fantasy, Immig. Experience, Ofc: Multiverse. 9.6/10.
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Blonde (2022)
A Once-A-Gen. Perfection Of Casting In Ana De Armas As The Hollywood Legend Marilyn Monroe, Striking AD Viz Style, Complex Anti-Biopic Plot Structure, Brazen Courage To Not Bow To Woke Culture & First NC-17 Film Release Via Stream. 8/10.
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Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (2022)
The Humble Origins, Gascönade, Moxie, Twstd Fantasy, Dropout, 808’s, Heartbreak, Flashing Lights, Presidency, Fashion, Religion, & Oracular Graduation Of The New Gen. MJ, JYAT: worthy, hypercreative, street-ground, valorous indie KW doc. 8.7/10.
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Bigger, bolder, and better in ~every conceivable way than the original [from cast to writing to anthology franchise to stylistic panache], Agatha Christie x Rian Johnson finally strike B+ twist-knife whodunit w. classic 007 Dr. No flavor aesthetics. 8.7/10.
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Strawberry Mansion (2022)
A hyperimaginative time/space-bending fantasia dreamscape & new cult-classic contrastively juxtaposing the ethereal freedom, limitlessness, mystery, euphoria, life of imagination w. etiolate, grayscale euthanization of govt. & capitalism. 9.5/10.
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