meta: Gender
2019
'Princess Jellyfish': Girls, Be Ambitious! August 05, 2019
A sly treatise on gender roles and presentation, wrapped in a screwball romantic farce and delivered with great affection
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2018
'An Actor's Revenge': Improvised, And Served Cold March 31, 2018
It's normally bad to call a movie 'stagy', but Kon Ichikawa's kabuki tragedy revels in it to great effect
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'Land Of The Lustrous': The Crystal Method January 30, 2018
The glimmering surfaces of this endearing microcosmic fantasy-adventure hide great depths that promise to only get greater with time
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'your name.': If A Body Meet A Body ... January 26, 2018
Makoto Shinkai's blockbuster is an eyeful and a heartful, but look closely and you'll see the seams
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2017
'Funeral Parade Of Roses': Party Like It's 1969 November 24, 2017
More than forty years later, Toshio Matsumoto's psychedelic whirlpool of counterculture sexuality and continuity-shattering New Wave filmmaking remains a one-of-a-kind blast of cinematic fresh air
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'Kaiba': This Body Holding Me October 24, 2017
Masaaki Yuasa's psychedelic exploration of the mutability of bodies and memories, in the form of a child's tale, is a one-of-a-kind masterwork
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