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Sheep in the Box
In what universe is this even remotely a possibility that exploring such concepts in this way genuinely has anything meaningful to contribute to our understanding of the human condition?
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The House on The Slope
Often heart-wrenching and unfortunately timely, The House on The Slope is a limited series that aims higher than the boundaries of the genre, and creates an unforgettable narrative as a result.
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Another World
It is by all means both narratively ambitious and visually stunning, if not occasionally messy, but for most of its duration this film is just so bleak, I don't think I could actually recommend this to anyone.
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The Invite
I went in blind, more or less expecting a slightly more satirical Marriage Story (2019) so this was a fun surprise.
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Erupcja
Nice little character study exploring the immediate surrounding impact of someone that mythologizes their own emotional immaturity and fear of commitment.
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The President's Cake
Bleak, borderline nihilistic even, the backdrop of the film is more interested in the direct failures of the Saddam regime than offering any substantial critique of the American imperialist structure that had driven the region into desolation and was actively bombing it (presented instead as an always present inevitability); in turn making the film particularly palatable to a western audience that can consume it within the comfort of any ideology without being overly challenged.
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The Legend of Hei II
Maybe I'm reading too much into this but it feels like a metaphor for geopolitical tension and arguments for peaceful co-existence and mutual cooperation between China and the west.
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The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan first and foremost makes cinematic spectacles and I was spectacled. Still can't write a woman to save his life though.
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El Sett
Making a biopic of a pan-Arabic legend, whose rich career spanned over 70 years, while navigating both the personal and the rapid political and socioeconomic developments of Egypt, is no easy feat, and the end result is good; it is touching, entertaining, captivating.
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Eagles of the Republic
In his first film in the Arabic-language Cairo trilogy, Swedish-Egyptian director Tarek criticizes pre-revolution political corruption; in his second, the Muslim Brotherhood; with his latest release, the neo-noir political thriller Eagles of the Republic, Tarek is more daring, taking aim at the active ruling Egyptian government. Except, due to sloppy writing and historical inaccuracies, it is not very effective at doing so.