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4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)

4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)
Rating: ★★
Sep 3, 2012End of the World
Abel Ferrara makes an End of the World film that hardly ever leaves the characters' apartment and in which almost nothing happens. Considering the angry, bleak work of his heyday, you cannot wonder if the 60 year-old Ferrara has lost his mojo
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Holy Motors (2012)

Holy Motors (2012)
Rating: ★★★★
Oct 27, 2012Surrealism/Man's Cryptic Journey Through Various Disguises
Genuinely mind-screwing effort from Leos Carax. Imagine a version of Cosmopolis as hijacked by Alejandro Jodorowsky - a series of surreal vignettes that arrives at a major "huh?" ending
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The Little Prince (2015)

The Little Prince (2015)
Rating: ★★½
Mar 20, 2016Animation/Young Boy Alien Visitor Fable
On its own terms, a frequently lovely film. The director made a big thing of how much he loved the Saint-Exupery original but makes a completely different story with only occasional Little Prince interludes
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Martyrs (2015)

Martyrs (2015)
Rating: ★
Feb 28, 2016Imprisonment and Torture
Martyrs was one of the most grimly disturbing films of the 2000s; this English-language remake, which waters everything down and rewrites the ending to have one of the girls bursting in to save the other with a shotgun counts as surely one of the great all-time cinematic bad ideas
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The Red Turtle (2016)

The Red Turtle (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Oct 10, 2016Animation/Castaway Befriends Turtle Woman
Studio Ghibli's first ever international co-production. A desert island castaway fantasy, this makes interesting comparison to the recent Robinson Crusoe/The Wild Life, even if both films are poles apart in style. This is dialogueless, spare and contained with a minimalism of plot and drama
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Dilili in Paris (2018)

Dilili in Paris (2018)
Rating: ★★★★
May 24, 2021Animation/Journey Through Belle Epoque Paris
Michel Ocelot is one of the great underrated animators of the world. Here he makes an exquisite tribute to the Belle Epoque featuring appearances from names of the era and decked out in Steampunk inventions
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