The act of questioning moves the film beyond mere interrogation of the veracity of mediums.
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Red Rooms is intensely aware of our always-on, always-plugged-in culture.
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Writer-director Asmae El Moudir’s examination of the Bread Riots is intensely personal.
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Baker’s portrayal of class, privilege, and more is nothing if not consistently clear-eyed.
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In Cloud, Kurosawa literalizes the online rage machine with physical violence.
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The film’s treatment of its subject is belligerently hamfisted, disingenuous, and incurious.
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The film ultimately exploits an urgent crisis in order to provide audiences with genre kicks.
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The continued cutaways back to Earth effectively de-pressurize Slingshot’s main plotline.
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For better and worse, you can tell that The Wasp was initially written for the stage.
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The film somehow shows its hand too early and plays its cards too close to its chest.
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