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Borders to cross and obstacles impeding passage are omnipresent in Transit, which like a lot of author/director Christian Petzold’s transition-fixated oeuvre, is a forlorn romantic reverie about id, regret, trauma and rebirth. Moreover, it’s another of his masterworks to confront issues of personal and national consciousness via a distinct cine-filter, with Casablanca and The Passenger proving two of its many spiritual touchstones. Its characters linked by spectral bonds they can feel if not quite establish (or management), it’s an entrancing and inherently mysterious ghost story that’s both timeless and, sadly, of our specific moment. Adam Sandler is a loser who can’t stop chasing that elusive victory in Uncut Gems, an nervousness-inducing crime film fueled by its protagonist’s addiction to the push of risking all of it.

Midnight Family ( 97%

Photograph enriches the acquainted arc of its love story by refreshingly refracting its characters’ budding bond via a sociocultural prism. … Read More