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  • Crazy, Not Insane

    Crazy, Not Insane

    If you ever had any interest in psychopathology outside the spectacle of media glamorisation and extensive exploitation, this is the doc you’ve been looking for. Devastating and fascinating, it suffers perhaps from visual and narrative fragmentation, but what it does do is depict human thirst for retribution. Society as executioner. ★★★★☆

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  • Marriage Story

    Marriage Story

    The exposure of the personal in public carries within it a fundamental indecency, the prosaic dissecting the poetic. The former usually wins, as nobody outside a couple can really assess the intimate space between them, least of all people hired to separate them. But Baumbach achieved a public display of regret which works. ★★★★☆

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  • JT LeRoy

    JT LeRoy

    So much pain, hubris, ambition and damage to draw upon, the entire publicity farce a perfect profile of the times – the avatar being more important than the author, yet we get a breezy, well-lit tale, too mild for its material, all persona, glossy surfaces, and tiara tears. No matter that Laura Dern is fiercely up…

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  • The Tale

    The Tale

    A wound festering, sexual damage mentally packaged as a taboo love affair, an irreversible seduction interpreted as consensual in the imaginings of a 13-year-old girl determined to preserve the right of her passage to womanhood. Artistic faults, and inconsistencies be damned, this film is an act of pure courage, a masterclass in honesty. ★★★★☆

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