An enthusiastic recollection of the outre offerings you should have seen this year.
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The movie business as I knew it is now over.
Here they are my ten best.
See them and suffer … joyously.
1.Love Lies Bleeding(Rose Glass)
1.
Even the pig-men are cute.
2.Queer(Luca Guadagnino)
2.
Oh, if todays homos were this radical, Id be a much happier queer myself.
3.The Brutalist(Brady Corbet)
3.
A cold-as-concrete VistaVision (!)
Yes, the running time is 3.5 hours, but the only thing too long is the intermission.
4.Hard Truths(Mike Leigh)
4.
A horribly sad and sometimes hilariously funny portrait of the most unpleasant sourpuss woman in the history of cinema.
A wretched experience Ill cherish forever.
5.Messy(Alexi Wasser)
5.
Its sparkling, its rude, its knowing, and its hot.
Im glad young people are still angry and confused about mating.
6.Joker: Folie a Deux(Todd Phillips)
6.
Finally, a love story I can relate to.
So insane, so well thought out, so well directed, so much smoking!
Die, dumbbells, die!
7.Femme(Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping)
7.
Its all drag when it comes down to being a top or bottom.
Each man kills the thing he loves, indeed.
8.Emilia Perez(Jacques Audiard)
8.
Right now, Im belting out, Its No.
8 on my list, and who knows, maybe Ill make a movie about it?
9.Babygirl(Halina Reijn)
9.
Okay, heteros are cutting edge this year, too.
Nicole Kidman continues taking big chances in her career, and she deserves our salute.
Here, she howls, she moans.
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