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This piece contains spoilers for TURKISH DELIGHT, now celebrating its 50 year anniversary. Unfortunately, Paul Verhoeven’s Dutch films are plainly inaccessible in the ...
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Merry-Go-Round Magazine’s Top Films of 2021

2021 was an odd year of transient, nigh-unidentifiable cinema: leftovers meant for an alternate 2020, knee-jerk responses to the ongoing crises of the ...
By StaffJanuary 13, 20220
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Horny Nuns and Film School Weirdos: BENEDETTA and THE SOUVENIR PART II See Two Directors Staying Very On-Brand

Fresh out of the 2021 New York Film Festival, Hilary Jane Smith downed a double dose of undiluted auteur-driven cinema: Joanna Hogg’s THE ...
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