Author: Greg
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The Surfer
Finnegan | 2025 | Australia One need not scratch much varnish off the surface of Australia’s easygoing reputation to uncover darkness. I went into this prepared for a critique of the “locals only” mentality that continues to foment social unrest on beaches in Australia (see also: the Cronulla race riots). Instead, my brain got turned […]
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Le Cercle Rouge
Melville | 1970 | France Just Alain Delon being beautiful, even with his lil moustache. You come to Melville for vibes and set pieces, and this movie has plenty of both. Perfectly and deliberately paced; wins you over nice and slow like.
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Les Chambres rouges
Plante | 2023 | Canada Holy hell, this is one of the most intense movies l’ve seen in a long time. Juliette Gariépy is absorbing — a black hole at the centre of a morbid and constricting obsession. The score overwhelms in the best way. I wish I could have seen this in a cinema. Bonus […]
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La Bête
Bonello | 2023 | France I’m an unapologetic lover of this kind of sweeping genre-masher; one which echoes itself even as it unfolds from within those echoes. Léa Seydoux puts her whole heart into a performance that earns its final moment (the emotion of which I will not spoil).
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Thunderbolts*
Schreier | 2025 | USA | IMAX An encounter with art has two sides: you find the art as it is but on the reverse, art finds you as *you* are. The latter consideration is as underappreciated as it is salient; all we have is our emotional response. Suffice to say, l’ve been “going through […]
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Drop
Landon | 2025 | USA Had the thought “I would’ve loved this back when I was first getting into movies” and that’s the headline: I’ve simply seen too many movies and this one didn’t care to subvert my expectations. (Also: it didn’t seem to know how to be commentary on abuse despite manifestly wanting to […]
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The Monkey
Perkins | 2025 | USA Another in a collection of films I’ll call “curiosities”: films which don’t really tick all of my boxes but which I’m glad somebody made (so we can continue to have nice things). I laughed a fair bit in the early going — mostly at Tatiana Maslany’s irreverent line readings — […]
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Sinners
Coogler | 2025 | USA | IMAX Something rather special, and I’m instantly wanting to see it again. The IMAX sequences were breathtaking and reminded me of why I fell in love with moviegoing. Not sure if it’s good or bad that I saw this while in an existential funk, as I’ve been feeling increasingly […]
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Baby Driver
Wright | 2017 | UK, USA 5th or 6th watch. One of those movies I will never be able to divorce from the memory of watching it for the first time (with The Girl on a rainy afternoon in Boston). A week later I was driving, alone, through the desert toward Alamogordo, New Mexico, listening […]
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Lynch | 2006 | USA Umpteenth viewing. Good for a revisit every couple of years, and crazy that it’s almost 20 years old now. I’ve had the soundtrack in regular rotation for as long. There are underrated bits of clever craft that elevate this past mere stoner comedy, like the cuts between the shroom-induced hallucinations […]