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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 09 Jul 2016

Several scenes where the Ghostbusters try out Holtzmann's weapons in the alley behind their offices, and destroy everything in their path along…

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Review of Under the Bed (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 26 Jun 2016

Once, however, the monster comes out of its hiding place and sheds its psychosexual slough, all that remains is a silly, sub-Joe Dante clash…

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Review of Under the Bed (2012)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 26 Jun 2016

Once, however, the monster comes out of its hiding place and sheds its psychosexual slough, all that remains is a silly, sub-Joe Dante clash…

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Review of Triple 9 (2016)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 20 Jun 2016

It is a tense, amped-up, hyperviolent caper whose cops and robbers are not always easy to distinguish…

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Review of Suburra (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 20 Jun 2016

A rain-soaked, noir-shaded city symphony revealing a Roman empire that is always ending…

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Review of The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 31 May 2016

In this hermetic world…

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Review of At the Devil's Door (2014)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 31 May 2016

Let[s] genre's demonic possessions & reality's housing repossessions collide at an uncanny crossroads where sociopolitics and scares meet…

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Review of Repo Man (1984)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 31 May 2016

A western [but] also a punk road movie, a conspiratorial cold-war chase caper, a paranoid apocalypse sci-fi, a postmodern mixed plate of shrimp,…

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Review of The Apple (1998)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 31 May 2016

An allegory of Iran's longed-for emergence from repressive tradition into a more liberating modernity (especially for women)…

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Review of Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 31 May 2016

This dark satire-cum-parable (cling)wraps itself in a quirkily beautiful aesthetic that keeps us watching even when the material is at its…

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Review of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 22 Mar 2016

Make no mistake: while this three-hander cannot possibly pass the Bechdel test, it is nonetheless driven by real feminist concerns, as Michelle…

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Review of Birth of the Living Dead (2013)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 09 Feb 2016

Birth of the Living Dead does not uproot the order of behind-the-scenes documentaries, but the great likelihood that this film will send viewers…

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Review of Septic Man (2013)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 11 Jan 2016

The results, deeply unnerving, impenetrable and wrong in all the best ways, might well linger in your brain like a bad smell…

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Review of Maggie (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 20 Nov 2015

Focusing less on zombie action than on the last gasping phase of the pre-undead…

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Review of The World of Kanako (2014)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 20 Nov 2015

Relocates The Searchers (1956) to the landscapes of contemporary Tokyo, as a father looking for his lost daughter comes to embody the most…

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Review of Veteran (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 07 Nov 2015

An exciting, often very funny ride through Korea's social divisions, class inequalities and rough justice, Gangnam-style or otherwise…

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Review of Journey to the Shore (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 07 Nov 2015

This long goodbye offers, in its own time, a gently consoling message to anyone who has ever suffered grief and loss, or had their feelings…

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Review of Bone Tomahawk (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 06 Nov 2015

S…

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Review of The Boy (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 06 Nov 2015

An austere and chilling portrait of America's abandoned margins, The Boy is a slow-burner that builds and builds to its climactic conflagration,…

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Review of Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 06 Nov 2015

Deliriously daft until its final oater-style showdown... Miike delivers something all at once insane, inane and irresistible…

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