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Marty Supreme beats its audience to the floor, then lifts them up again
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This is a colossal, singular movie about a colossal, singular man and the malformation of his ideal American success story.
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Hollywood fascism and Barton Fink
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The Coens portray various forms of disingenuous malice within the American entertainment industry through two powerhouse lead performances.
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Jacques Tati inimitably satirizes the waste of industrialism in PlayTime
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Sound and dimension are used to their fullest extent to disorient Monsieur Hulot, as well as the audience, in the intricate metropolis of this macroscopic comedy.
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Brazil and the capitalist hellscape that it shamelessly mocks
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Through astounding spectacle, Terry Gilliam projects his truly original, dystopian nightmares to the screen.
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We must laugh at Dr. Strangelove to avoid crying for it
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Kubrick directs a darkly comic paranoid farce about humanity’s impending nuclear annihilation at the hands of military bureaucracy.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox and its masterful intimacy
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The wild animals of Wes Anderson’s first stop-motion feature are more human than anyone else he has depicted onscreen.
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The foundational empathy at the heart of Princess Mononoke
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Human industry’s willful exploitation of nature is met with violent revenge from the forest’s protectors in Miyazaki’s deeply political epic.