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  S He 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Jul 2021 2

  Holy. Fucking. Shit.

  If you care about transgressive film, you need to watch this.

  If you care about gender violence in film, you need to watch this. 

  If you care about trans cinema, you need to watch this. 

  If you care about animation, you need to watch this.

  If you care about stop motion, you need to watch this. 

  If you care about art, you need to watch this. 

  YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS. 
  
  Honestly the less said about it the better I think, just know that it’s a painful but absolutely incredible watch. You really do need to watch it. 

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  Ruben Brandt, Collector 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Nov 2019

  You ever pause a movie while streaming to buy a physical copy? I truly don't understand why the internet hasn't lost its damn mind over this movie.

  If you give even a single solitary fuck about animation please please please watch this movie. I think "like nothing you've ever seen before" gets overused, but this truly is like nothing you've ever seen before.

  The great joy here is absolutely in the style, but I think the story is also thoroughly…

Recent reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Sep 2024

  It’s hard not to think about David Cronenberg’s early high-concept body horror films and Nicolas Winding Refn’s LA-set, beauty obsessed The Neon Demon when watching The Substance. And yet, the film is wholly the work of a singular filmmaker. A filmmaker who seems to have a philosophical belief in cinema as a weapon.

  Full review at Allergic to the 21st Century.

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  The Hitcher 1986

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Sep 2024

  Why did no one tell me this is a toxic gay romance western with baby JJL in it? 

  I was not at all prepared for how hard this goes on any level, from gorgeous desert wide shots and helicopter explosions to genuinely shocking cruelty. 

  (Heads up that, at the moment, the whole thing is on YouTube and looks great, while there’s a full screen VHS rip on Max)

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Popular reviews

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  Messe Noire 1928

  Watched 30 Nov 2019 2

  I probably should have known that this would get much more graphic than expected when I could only find it on a porn site. But I figured "eh it's from the 20s, it can't be that aggressive" and decided to watch it in the dining room of the home I share with roommates.

  During the six minutes that this runs, one roommate came home and, just as this was getting to the close ups of penetration I was not at…

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★ Watched 17 Jul 2023 1

  There’s a moment in Barbie where Ken (Ryan Gosling), having recently learned about patriarchy, says to a businessman who’s informed him that they mostly hire women now, that they aren’t doing patriarchy very well. The man chuckles and assures him that they are, in fact, doing it very well; they’ve just become better at hiding it. It’s a good joke because it’s so true; the only problem is that it’s also exactly what Barbie is.

  The film takes explicit aim…