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By documenting Sarno's worldview, Song From the Forest compellingly foregrounds the ephemeral nature of all culture. Additionally, by demonstrating the intrinsically beautiful quality of the Bayaka's ways, it merges with his mission.

Verity is a ludicrous psycho-thriller as cold and tart as the wine cocktail that should come free with every ticket. It’s also a film whose enjoyably contrived pleasures, like those of its source material, hinge upon the fact that people are eager for any excuse to look down on a successful woman.

At its best, The Scout captures the contradictory experience of having a job closer to your dreams than many people ever get, but still far from where you want to be.

Digger is a mega-budget Dr. Strangelove riff so detached from human truth that its most believable character is a one-eyed animatronic cat named Maggie — a VistaVision satire so high-concept that it would be more accurate to measure its running time in altitude than minutes.

Another mid-century melodrama with very occasional monster sightings, the more thematically coherent and emotionally affecting Godzilla Minus Zero expands on the naive grassroots nationalism of its predecessor by reframing that movie’s characters from victims to survivors.

The question of Kaczynski’s mental health remains a matter of historical and clinical dispute. This film makes it look settled precisely where the record does not.

Never After Dark taps into the temporal dimensions of its timeless genre, its blithe spirit gradually stiffening into the stuff of a Kiyoshi Kurosawa chiller as it confronts the dangers of a broken clock.

If the plot of Forgotten Island can frequently be too busy in a way that distracts from the purity of its central friendship, the film always holds together — by something more than just centrifugal force — because the bond shared between its co-leads is strong enough to withstand a lot more than that.

It’s the intimate scale of Heart of the Beast that makes it work, and sink in.

What The Surgeon lacks in bloodshed — and energy — it makes up for in sheer grossness, knowing full well that Eliza’s superpower is that she doesn’t flinch at the kind of body horror that could make a grown man faint to the ground.