Articles
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What Sinners Gets Right About Family, Fear, and the Fight to Stay Human
The quiet ache of guilt sitting at the dinner table, the silence after a truth is buried, and the way pain is passed down like a name.
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I Love You Forever—RomCom Turned Nightmare Relationship
I Love You Forever, marketed as a “subversive” romantic comedy is in fact a painful horror film about a young woman deep in the throes of an abusive relationship.
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Monster (2023): When the Truth Is Not in the Telling but in the Seeing
Not every silence is empty. Some are filled with things too heavy for words.
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Challengers—Blurring the Lines of Platonic and Romantic Love
What happens to an inseparable bond when love for competing morphs into competing for love?
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Media as the Evil in Eddington
Eddington attempts to capture how media is intertwined with the uncomfortable present.
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“Opus” Is Fun But Doesn’t Know Its Own Motivation
Mark Anthony Green was unable to connect all of the pieces in his debut feature film, leaving Opus as a middling entry in an already oversaturated genre.
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Past Lives (2023) – What If Timing Was the Only Thing That Got in the Way
A quiet film that does not demand your tears but earns them. It explores love that lingers, timing that fails, and the silence between what was and what could have been.
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The Grainy Landscape, Worn-Out Household, and Remembering the Past in 28 Years Later
How do zombie films shine new light in the post-Covid and post-Brexit era?
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KPop Demon Hunters—A Battle of Heart and Soul
KPop Demon Hunters took social media by storm recently—is it truly as good as people have hyped it up to be?
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Deep Cover: fun, but not that deep
The more biting satire is reserved for those on top of the power structure, such as the police, while those occupying lower levels are given more nuance and likability, even if they operate on the wrong side of the law. This principle gives Deep Cover its heart.
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