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Phoebe Chen

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Evil Does Not Exist (2023) 91% “Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new film, an eco-thriller set in a sylvan Japanese town, explores the messy entanglements of human, machine, and nature that make up planetary existence.” – The Nation Jun 13, 2024 Full Review Afire (2023) 91% “Afire plays with that feeling of disjuncture before catastrophe alters what seemed at first like a listless summer into a week freighted with loss.” – The Nation Aug 31, 2023 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% “By withholding memory and any substantive evocation of Tár's childhood, Field avoids the rationale of a backstory. Her abhorrent behavior is never given a legible motivation and therefore partial absolution.” – The Nation Dec 15, 2022 Full Review Memoria (2021) 90% “"What was that sound?” is another way of asking: What do I know about the material world and how it behaves? Memoria’s sound design nudges prosaic scraps of ambient noise into the spotlight.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 19, 2022 Full Review Titane (2021) 90% “Julia Ducournau's surreal horror film is a harrowing exploration of the body and technology.” – The Nation Oct 8, 2021 Full Review The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) 83% “Against the starkness of Katharina's timidity and innocence, the depictions of Beizmenne and Tötges veer into hyperbole, but it's this construction of a guileless woman in love that helps stoke audience outrage at her mistreatment.” – The Nation Dec 12, 2020 Full Review Suburban Birds (2018) 84% “There's no reliance on the easy nostalgia of period markers or a childhood boxed away as idyll; both storylines seem thoroughly contemporary.” – Cinema Scope Nov 22, 2019 Full Review First Love (2019) 98% 8/10 “"The tone of Takashi Miike's latest film is best encapsulated by a single image: a close-up of a freshly severed head, its features wreathed in a goofy, blissed-out grin."” – Film Comment Magazine Oct 7, 2019 Full Review Joker (2019) 68% 5/10 “In aping the ambition and prestige of its motley influences, Joker winds up with a bungled understanding of its own relation to violence.” – Film Comment Magazine Oct 7, 2019 Full Review Henry Glassie: Field Work (2019) “Glassie appears as an intermittent talking head, relaying principles that sound aphoristic, but charm with their generous reading of the world.” – Cinema Scope Sep 12, 2019 Full Review Drift (2017) 80% “Crucial to Drift's evocation of place is Nika Breithaupt's remarkable sound design, which signals movement and spatial boundaries as much as do the film's visuals.” – Cinema Scope Mar 15, 2019 Full Review Millennium Mambo (2001) 84% “Millennium Mambo blunts the many rhythms of urban life into an empty time less lived than passively endured.” – Screen Slate Mar 2, 2019 Full Review Roma (2018) 96% “However easy it is to dismiss a static or slow camera as performing attentiveness, it works - I have never looked so hard at soapsuds.” – Another Gaze Jan 23, 2019 Full Review Burning (2018) 95% “Although nothing is explicitly surreal, there are enough off-kilter intrusions to cast the everyday in an odd light, where the inexplicable opens a story to unseen possibilities.” – Another Gaze Nov 14, 2018 Full Review Graduation (2016) 94% Recommended “It's in Mungiu's skillful structuring that his themes are given their complexity, through multiple threads that unravel at different rhythms.” – 4:3 Jul 24, 2017 Full Review Happy End (2017) 69% Not Recommended “The film unfolds like a curation of his favourite ideas from movies past, a self-referential object predictably filtered through the theme of bourgeois malaise.” – 4:3 Jul 24, 2017 Full Review The Love Witch (2016) 95% Highly Recommended “Biller's challenge of the surface dares us to be mesmerised without being beguiled, and to parse the realm of female agency without demonising its contradictions.” – 4:3 Apr 1, 2017 Full Review The Light Between Oceans (2016) 62% Not Recommended “What I find so jarring about The Light Between Oceans isn't just its unabashed sentimentality, but its utter reducibility.” – 4:3 Apr 1, 2017 Full Review Hooligan Sparrow (2016) 97% Recommended “To see Wang simply operating the camera is gratifying; a gesture that asserts critical presence in the face of state-orchestrated odds.” – 4:3 Apr 1, 2017 Full Review We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited (2015) Recommended “... the film's focus on the history of Native American struggle lifts what would otherwise play out like an extended behind-the-scenes featurette.” – 4:3 Apr 1, 2017 Full Review
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