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Review of Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) by Lawrence Garcia for The A.V. Club — 13 Oct 2021

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Hamaguchi’s deliberate disruptions of narrative flow are not crude storytelling gestures so much as attempts to create epiphanic moments out of time, where the rift between imagination and reality ceases to exist—at least until the wheel of fortune turns round once more.

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This review of Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) was written by Lawrence Garcia and published by The A.V. Club on 13 Oct 2021.

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy has generally received very positive reviews.

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