Tag: A24
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Highest 2 Lowest: Highest 2 Lowest: From Dumbo to the Underground
When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
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The Legend of Ochi: The Lantern Beneath the Alder
There’s a hush to The Legend of Ochi, not the silence of fear, but the quiet after something sacred has been touched. Isaiah Saxon’s direction threads the edges of folklore and fable, delivering a debut feature that breathes in myth and exhales childhood. Carpathia, rendered with murky moonlight and soil-thick air, gives us a story…
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Opus: Pearls in the Firelight
In Opus, director Mark Anthony Green orchestrates a nightmarish requiem for celebrity culture, burning through the lacquered illusions of fame like candlelight against velvet. Anchored by Ayo Edebiri’s poised and perceptive turn as journalist Ariel Ecton, the film juggles psychological horror, dark satire, and cult paranoia—sometimes deftly, sometimes erratically. It’s a fever dream that dares…
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“I Saw the TV Glow”: A Journey Through the Static
MOVIE INFO: Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. REVIEW: In Jane Schoenbrun’s latest…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies: Paranoia and Acting in a Dark House
Storyline via IMDB: Nervous about meeting the smug, wealthy friends of her rehabilitated girlfriend Sophie, timid newcomer Bee arrives late to a booze-addled, drug-fuelled hurricane party at bored David’s Georgian grey-stone manor house. As the storm rages outside, the party gets started, and the group of spoiled zoomers gathers around the host in the family…