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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 ...

Over the past few years, Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi has quietly become one of the most exciting and thoughtful directors working today. Though ...