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December 30, 2011
Underwater Love (Shinji Imaoka, 2011)
Underwater Love serves instead as an odd artistic work on sexuality, the film medium, and the way we’ve been conditioned to respond to it.
January 30, 2015
Honeymoon (Leigh Janiak, 2014)
Honeymoon is like the edge of a blade, which could turn out quite dull or sharp as hell. Riding that edge is what makes the film so appealing.
November 28, 2010
Accident (Pou-soi Cheang, 2009)
Accident devolves into a too simplistic whodunit, where the director tries to dazzle us with his technical mastery and film knowledge.
March 22, 2010
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
In Les Carabiniers, Godard is in control, from playing with our scopophilic gaze in the makeshift rape scene or denying us narcissistic satisfaction.
November 28, 2010
Symbol (Hitoshi Matsumoto, 2009)
Symbol never lives up to its potential, choosing rather to limit itself to slapstick gags, immature, dull and predictable.
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