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NYFF 63: "Kontinental '25"

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 2d

the nba is so close........i even watched some preseason last night

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 11d

today's #NYFF63 review: Radu Jude's other film at the festival, Kontinental '25, is a comparatively stripped-down social drama where impassive filmmaking belies mounting nationalist tensions open.substack.com/pub/capybaro...

Radu Jude's second film at the festival is a traditional drama about liberal guilt and nationalist wounds

Radu Jude's vampire comedy is a lengthy anthology that takes AI art to task

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 14d

today's #NYFF63 review: Radu Jude's epic-length Dracula non-adaptation is a layered, trollish take on appropriation and theft, but its intentionally poor-taste use of AI art gets tiresome quickly

NYFF 63: "Dracula"

NYFF 63: "The Mastermind"

largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 15d

today's #NYFF63 review: Kelly Reichardt's newest is a unique kind of heist thriller, where the action is comically minimal and the only deception is the lies people tell themselves capybaroness.substack.com/p/nyff-63-th...

My review of Kelly Reichardt's newest.

NYFF 63: "No Other Choice"

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 18d

today's #NYFF63 review: Park Chan-wook's great No Other Choice, a broad black comedy that brings bleak complications to the "Eat The Rich" subgenre and improves on Decision to Leave's manic editing capybaroness.substack.com/p/nyff-63-no...

Ten years ago, there were two massive ripples in American political culture.

NYFF 63: "It Was Just An Accident"

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 19d

today's #NYFF63 review: Jafar Panahi's Palme d'or winning It Was Just An Accident, a film with impeccably crafted drama and familiar moral dimensions capybaroness.substack.com/p/nyff-63-it...

My review of the new film from Jafar Panahi

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 19d

my #NYFF63 coverage begins today! paid subscribers are getting a new review of a film at the festival almost every day for the next two weeks. every review will be linked in this thread!

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · Sep 14

subscriptions are currently on sale by the way! now's the time! capybaroness.substack.com/nyffdiscount

Thoughts and opinions on movies, TV and games from Film Twitter's most blocked user. Click to read Rodent Reflections from Capybaroness, by Esther Rosenfield, a Substack publication with hundreds of s...

The Ones In Front of the Gun

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · Sep 14

i reviewed The Long Walk, a film i could never have expected to find so affecting and intelligent. count the synonyms for "surprise" in here:
open.substack.com/pub/capybaro...

My review of 'The Long Walk'

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · Sep 14

subscriptions are currently on sale by the way! now's the time! capybaroness.substack.com/nyffdiscount

Thoughts and opinions on movies, TV and games from Film Twitter's most blocked user. Click to read Rodent Reflections from Capybaroness, by Esther Rosenfield, a Substack publication with hundreds of s...

The Ones In Front of the Gun

largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · Sep 14

i reviewed The Long Walk, a film i could never have expected to find so affecting and intelligent. count the synonyms for "surprise" in here:
open.substack.com/pub/capybaro...

My review of 'The Long Walk'

Subscribe to Rodent Reflections from Capybaroness

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · Sep 14

you very easily can? stretching things out over 12 hours would be unbearably tedious. basically everything from the book is in this movie and it's barely over 100 minutes

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · Sep 14

The Long Walk owns. it's YA Punishment Park. very affecting and intelligent film. some great gore too. capybaroness seal of approval. go to a movie theater this weekend.

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · Sep 12

hello! subscribers to my substack will get access to my reviews of films at the New York Film Festival (incl. It Was Just An Accident, Magellan, Resurrection + more) so i'm running a sale on subscriptions to get more people reading. support trans voices! capybaroness.substack.com/subscribe?co...

Thoughts and opinions on movies, TV and games from Film Twitter's most blocked user. Click to read Rodent Reflections from Capybaroness, by Esther Rosenfield, a Substack publication with hundreds of s...

The Conjuring movies set the tone for a decade of studio horror. Now they're the ones chasing trends.

largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · Sep 6

wrote about the degradation of the Conjuring movies from tone-setting studio horror to tedious trend-chasing bullshit. free for all readers! open.substack.com/pub/capybaro...

Vestigal Horror