Travis Knight’s film is keen to get audiences to laugh at it instead of with it.
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This is an idiosyncratic debut by a fiercely independent artist eager to take on the world.
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The Argentine filmmaker discusses the process of capturing her main character’s subjectivity.
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The film finds pitch-black humor, tragedy, and horror in a series of asides and digressions.
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The film often strikes the right balance between loony satire and heartfelt commentary.
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The film points us back to our distorted selves and the hollow world we’ve built.
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Think of the film, starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser, as the Moneyball of war movies.
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Kamal Aljafari’s documentary is politically striking for its familiarity.
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Daniel Roher’s modern noir has an appealing cleverness and lightness of touch.
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De Palma’s acidic satire of mass commodification from 1970 is his first triumph.
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