The film is a poignant portrait of the desire for queer kinship within one’s very bloodline.
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There’s something pleasingly unpretentious about how little room the film leaves for subtext.
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Freudians will have a field day with Schleinzer’s 17th-century-set third feature.
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The brittle humanity of the characters is the key ingredient to the film’s grim sense of irony.
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Adam McDonald’s film struggles to bring its non-zombie characters to life.
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The film, written by Efthymis Filippou, is a cartoonish cavalcade of pedestrian perversions.
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For better and worse, the film suggests a low-rent spin on Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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Gomis’s sixth feature suggests a less sardonic version of one of Robert Altman’s hangout movies.
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The film demonstrates the same sense of political urgency as The Teacher’s Lounge.
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Like its main character’s modus operandi as a criminal, the film plays by the book.
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