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Raw

2/27/2019

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​3.06

A reserved veterinary student develops new cravings in her first year of college.

Directed by Julia Ducournau
Starring Garance Marillier and Ella Rumpf
Review by Jon Kissel

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Raw is one of those films that engenders visceral reactions in its viewers.  Its showings have apparently resulted in the paramedics being called in after audience members have fainted.  Even the trailer dares the viewer to look away.  As the latest entry into the company of the French Extremity genre, along with gorefests like Martyrs and Gaspar Noe's nightmare landscapes, Raw deserves its grotesque reputation,  but it is not solely going for cheap thrills.  Julia Ducournau's intense but heady film is a feast for the eyes, as oddly beautiful and entrancing as a story about a sheltered veterinary student's cannibalistic awakening could possibly be.  Ducournau throws down a challenge to stomach her work and an invitation to experience it.  Both are worth accepting.


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The Beach

2/14/2019

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2.00

An adventurer catches wind of a secret Thai island.

Directed by Danny Boyle
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton
Review by Jon Kissel

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There are movies tethered to their time, and then there’s Danny Boyle’s The Beach. Philosophically, this film is the essence of pre-dot-com-bubble, pre-9/11 America, a frivolous place with a flat culture that must be abandoned to find whatever life really is.  A person can only view a work for the first time once.  I don’t know what it would have been like to watch The Beach in 2000, but watching it nineteen years after its release is an eye-rolling experience.


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Solo: A Star Wars Story

2/5/2019

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A space orphan must find his girlfriend and and a ship to fly her around in.

​Directed by Ron Howard
Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, and Woody Harrelson
Review by Jon Kissel

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As the fourth Star Wars film in four years, the troubled production that was Han Solo’s origin story is the sore thumb of the bunch.  While each previous film has its detractors, some louder than others, Solo is the film whose critical dismissal and lackluster commercial haul was striking enough to push the giant ship of Disney away from continued annual returns to George Lucas’ universe.  The energy of Solo itself is like a self-fulfilling prophecy, such that the actors and filmmakers may have anticipated how their work was going to be received, put their heads down, and made it to the final frame.  From Ron Howard on down, no one seems creatively inspired or happy to be here, resulting in a film that has little impact after the credits roll.


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