Reviews

Highest 2 Lowest

If anyone other than Spike Lee were directing it, a remake of High and Low would seem like a terrible idea.

Issue
53
Weapons

“A lot of people die in a lot of really weird ways in this story.”

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52
Together

Being in a dysfunctional relationship, according to Together, is not unlike having a dead rat in your walls.

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51
Oh, Hi!

The perils of not asking “so, what are we?” in a timely manner reach their (il)logical conclusion in Oh, Hi!, a dark rom-com in which we aren’t the only captive audience.

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50
Cloud

If you want to understand the digital age and its anxieties, you could do worse than watching a Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie.

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49
Sovereign

There’s no such thing as a sovereign citizen, but there are a lot of people who’d be angry if they heard you say that.

Issue
48
Kill the Jockey

If the mobsters he owes money don’t kill Remo first, the drugs he steals from his horse ought to do the trick.

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47
Sorry, Baby

“Something really bad happened to me” is as specific as Agnes tends to be when asked about it.

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46
Materialists

You don’t think of yourself as a Dakota Johnson person until you watch her in a movie like Materialists and realize you are very much a Dakota Johnson person.

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45
The Life of Chuck

It isn’t until The Life of Chuck’s second chapter that we actually meet its title character, by which point the world (or at least a world) might have already ended.

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44
The Phoenician Scheme

It’s hard not to think of Royal Tenenbaum the first time you meet Zsa-zsa Korda.

Issue
43
Bring Her Back

A chalk barrier encircles the secluded home, though it’s unclear whether it’s meant to keep something in or out.

Issue
42