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The Empire (2024) 57% 2.5/4 “Working with the toolbox of popular American cinema to explore themes dear to the French cinematic canon, as well as his own, Dumont creates a singular cinematic experience. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 10, 2025 Full Review Love Streams (1984) 100% “The impossible truth of the performances in Cassavetes' work feels like a confrontation of the contradictions and fears that we try to hide from ourselves. ” – Vague Visages Jun 17, 2024 Full Review The One I Love (2014) 83% “A fever dream of marital discontent, Charlie McDowell’s The One I Love tackles a failing marriage with sci-fi panache.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Agnes of God (1985) 44% “The beauty of the film is that she transcends the victim narrative...” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 92% “As many of the Coen Brothers’ films discuss the intersection between destiny and will, Inside Llewyn Davis complicates matters by featuring an artist who is not open to the possibility of success.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review School Daze (1988) 58% “Borrowing the tropes from classical Hollywood musicals, early exploitation cinema and the popularity of the college raunch comedy, Lee subverts the values of the dominant social ethics and reaches into the heart of artifice ripping...” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Love & Basketball (2000) 85% “Love & Basketball transcends the simplicity of just alienation, as it reaches for romantic equality and miraculously achieves it.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review The Nun (1966) 86% “Piercing sounds of church bells drown out several passages within the film. The ringing — purposefully captured at an uncomfortably loud octave — encompasses our ears.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Sisters of Satan (1977) “The viscous atmosphere of Juan López Moctezuma’s Alucarda exists somewhere between high camp and hysterical horror.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Viridiana (1961) 97% “The overall beauty of Buñuel’s work always lies in his malleability...” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Dark Habits (1984) 75% “The film operates like a high key sitcom, where camaraderie overrules plot contrivances. However, unlike the pithy misunderstandings of American primetime television, character development overrules the drama of sex, drugs and money.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) 85% “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant has the trappings of an ancient story of Gods and monsters: a stiff poetry of immeasurable beauty, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s magnificent romance transcends human drama. ” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review In a Year of 13 Moons (1978) 76% “Spengler's performance stresses the exhaustive weight of expectations that Elvira feels. He injects the air of a person on the brink of collapse who does everything they can to hide their impending crash.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review The Love Witch (2016) 95% “Though not without its flaws, The Love Witch demonstrates an astonishing amount of potential for all those involved. What Anna Biller managed to achieve, with limited resources, easily stands up with the films of Lucio Fulci...” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Opening Night (1977) 96% “As the film progresses, the truth comes to the surface, and it hits with bludgeoning force.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Husbands (1970) 68% “Realism, in the cinema of John Cassavetes, has an edge of madness, pain and neurosis. Cassavetes aestheticizes pain and anxiety to represent the truth of his reality.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Too Late Blues (1962) 82% “While other films produced within the studio system share themes and archetypes with Too Late Blues, none quite achieve the honest brutality of Cassavetes' fractured visual style and bitter script.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review La Pointe Courte (1956) “How unusual to see a woman’s perspective on love presented so plainly as Varda does in La Pointe Courte.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review In the Cut (2003) 35% “In The Cut doesn’t quite bring together all its disparate threads. The film thrives as it tackles the cerebral and contradictory desires of Frannie, but can’t quite wrap up the murder mystery in the story.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Sweetie (1989) 90% “Campion lends a tremendous amount of empathy to both Sweetie and Kay.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review The Portrait of a Lady (1996) 47% “Campion excels at revealing the elements that men don’t see in themselves that women find appealing, while also turning the tables and revealing the darkness of a society where men are always right.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Underworld (1927) 90% “Few filmmakers in the history of cinema have invoked the inherent eroticism of the image like Sternberg...” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review The Dead (1987) 94% “The environment turns to wintry Ireland, but it’s the warm interiors that still prevail.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review The Docks of New York (1928) “It’s not just that the camera moves that can lead one to feel swept up in the romance, it’s how the camera seems to sway like an organic creature, pulsing with blood and aching with desire.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Cat People (1982) 65% “Just like the old school gangster films that opened with empty warnings about the fact that crime doesn’t pay, the narrative limits do little to discount the expression of liberated and violent feminine desire.” – Vague Visages Jun 6, 2024 Full Review
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