A political revisionism of the hispanic supernatural horror-legend on the real-world ghastliness of indigenous genocide, Llorona is a mesmerizing & sophistcated genre piece that hits every note of typical fare – while poetically elevating beyond. 8.5/10.
[category:horror/internationale/political-drama,date:2020-10-01,rate:8.5,type:movies]
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Category: Internationale
Parasite (2019)
A masterpiece of marxist class discourse, charlatanism, socioeconomic naturalism, coup-de-grâce, sycophantism, home invasion, black comedy, h. joseon, miasma, & colonialism/imperialism themes in a staircase aesthetic; Best Film Of 2010s. 9.8/10.
[category:drama/comedyromance/lgbtq-minority/internationale,date:2019-12-30,rate:9.8,type:movies]
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Ash is Purest White (2019)
An elegant mandarin romantic masterpiece juxtaposing industrialism-and-free-spiritness, random violence-&-sacrifice with classical noir-isms, cinematographical bilateralism, Eastern-cultural majesty, & breakout Zhao Tao performance. 8.5/10.
[category:drama/crime-films/internationale,date:2019-03-20,rate:8.5,type:movies]
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Los Tigres Non Tienen Miedo (2019)
A dark, twisted fantasy adventure in the concrete jungle of Mexico City, blending narcotics crime drama, horror, & children’s fairy tales with phantasmagoria, cartel violence, & social consciousness latinx themes, reframing childhood trauma. 9/10.
[category:drama/horror/fantasy/crime-films/coming-of-age/internationale,date:2019-02-20,rate:9,type:movies]
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Roma (2018)
Gorgeously filmed in auteur vintage black-and-white with cultural vibrancy & a powerful elegiac critique of 1970’s Mexico turmoil on a personal Cuarón-curated semi-autobiographical scale, Roma is one of the decade’s greatest films. 9.7/10.
[category:drama/periodhistorical/lgbtq-minority,date:2018-12-27,rate:9.7,type:movies]
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Pather Panchali (Song Of The Little Road)
A rural, captivating depiction of Bengali village life with Italian Neorealism touches, childlike wonder in curiosity-fringed cultural identity exposition, rich orc. score, & vivid characterization of family portrait by new cinematic voice: Satyajit Ray. 9.4/10.
[category:drama/classics/lgbtq-minority/periodhistorical/character-study/coming-of-age/internationale,date:1956-07-20,rate:9.4,type:movies]
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The Babadook (2014)
A cornucopia of maternal failures, psychological lunacy, and children’s storybooks with high atmospheric tension & old-fashioned scares by a unique concept & stark artistic direction, The Babadook is a showcase of indie horror imagination. 7.9/10.
[category:horror/internationale,date:2014-05-03,rate:7.9,type:movies]
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Ju-On (The Grudge)
Filled with wildly-disturbing imagery that will mess you up from its chiaroscuric opening flicker, ghost horror’s thickest atmospherics in slow-burning majesty, & one of 2000’s most intriguing, complex, and avant-garde plot structures. 9.1/10.
[category:horror/internationale,date:2002-11-03,rate:9.1,type:movies]
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Breathless (1960)
A beautiful, sweeping example of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard’s indie masterpiece rewrote every rule of narrative construction & revitalized a medium, paradigmatically and stylishly-liberating the once-caged artform of cinema. 10/10.
[category:classics/drama/comedyromance/experimental/crime-films/film-noir/internationale,date:1960-12-07,rate:10,type:movies]
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