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La Notte

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One of the most emotionally complex films I’ve ever seen, the ennui, the mood, the elegance, all come together to make this — in my opinion — one of the greatest films ever made.

★★★★★

Zero Dark Thirty

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Less about Bin Laden, more about the woman behind the search and the events that lead to his assassination; the last scene cripples me every time I watch it.

★★★★★

Michael Clayton

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One of the best scripts ever written, deliberate, mythological: a modern masterpiece.

★★★★★

Enemy

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Beautiful, technical, literary, and lingering — as much about mood as narrative, and devastating, I’ll be thinking on this one for years.

★★★★★

Red Desert

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Angsty, hard to unravel, and timelessly and hauntingly beautiful – it’s easy to see Antonioni’s influence half a century later.

★★★★✩

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