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Some families inherit names, houses, even behaviors and mannerisms. The family in Shoplifters assembles itself out of discarded people. They live almost entirely in the present. The future is an approaching debt they’ve collectively decided not to discuss. That should make them reproachable, but, somehow, it doe...
Black Box sells itself well: it’s aliens on a plane. Put a group of strangers inside a sealed metal tube, introduce something violent and not of this world, and let panic take care of the rest. I’m usually an easy audience for this kind of contained genre film. Unfortunately, Black Box spends most of its brief runtime demonstrating that a good elevator pitch...
It’s Pat is not a good film; I’d just like to get that out of the way now. That said, it’s not without any merit. The film functions as a surprising portrayal of society’s reaction to androgyny. Its comedy depends upon the supposedly universal need to categorize another person as male or female. Pat’s appearance, voice, name, clothing, employment history, relationshi...
Hysteria is at its best when everyone has a defensible version of the truth and a selfish reason for insisting upon it. Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s political thriller begins with an act that can be interpreted as artistic expression, religious desecration, professional negligence, or deliberate provocation. The film spends most of its runtime refusing to decide which i...
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Dystopian films are often treated as a collection of recognizable images: surveillance cameras, brutalist architecture, militarized police, overcrowded cities, and citizens dressed in identical clothes. Those images can establish a mood, but they do not define the genre. A ruined society is not necessarily dystopian, an...