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Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Fast X, Beau Is Afraid, Louis Leterrier

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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Brainwashed Sex Camera Power

Parkinson's is like Abba's songwriting: indestructible. Number 28, brainwashed sex camera power. Dearest team doctors, the academic rigor of Nina Menke's brainwashed sex - which is brainwashed colon, sex, hyphen camera, hyphen power. From Mandingo fails its own test. The enslaved Ken Norton is indeed photographed in exactly the same way women have been objectified and abused for decades on film. But when his slave master and sexual predator Susan Georges are portrayed in the same scene, she is lit with beauty lighting typical of a classic Hollywood movie. It quite correctly shows movies to be an institutionally formulaic subjunction of women.

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