Tag: Reviews
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Alex Garland and Jacques Rancière Walk Into a Bar
Setting the Scene The reviews of Alex Garland’s Warfare are essentially unanimous: it is a good film. The arguments that ensued upon its release were not about its cinematography, sound design, tension, atmosphere, performances, or any of the things that make for an impactful aesthetic experience. No, the arguments boiled down to a rather simple question about…
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Review: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Should you be angry, or afraid? The varied and disparate covers of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley seem to playfully mirror the types of story Tom Ripley would choose to believe about himself. A man lost in a void, a man pining for an identity capable of love, a man overlooking Mongibello, Italy. In the most…
