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“Dicks” is offensive, distasteful, alienating and pure fun. While it is certainly not for everyone, those who are down to watch an absurdity-filled work will certainly be pleased with what they find.

Through its witty and clever use of magical realism, “Problemista” highlights the absurdity of the immigration system without dampening the mood.

“The movie is so much about looking at your own life and the connections that you have, the inyeon that you have, … to see what is extraordinary about those connections themselves, even though they may seem mundane and average,” Song said in an interview with the Daily Californian.

In spite of its arthouse eccentricities, the film’s calm pacing and subdued landscape shots make for a charming, albeit virtually plotless, slice-of-life flick.

The world’s thirst for proper POC representation (not just in cast but in crew) meant billions of eyes ready to devour “Beef.” In this pressure cooker, Lee Sung Jin cooks “Beef” to near-perfection. 

While “The Inspection'' may appear to be the antithesis of Hollywood’s military epics, the film earnestly follows the familiar underdog recruit narrative that marks the genre.

“Aftersun” is an attentive, affecting actualization of this acknowledgement of a parent’s liminality. With every frame of her past she pores over, Sophie reaches across space and time in gentle understanding of her father’s own fragile becoming, even while reckoning with the debris he left behind.

Boisterous yet also containing a light touch, the film manages to never betray its own characters for the sake of a cheap thrill or laugh.

There is no dearth of ambition in Robert Eggers’ third feature, which forsakes arid Viking drudgery — the kind mired in the myriad folktales “The Northman” sources from — for orgiastic, chainmail-clad antics.

His film, which follows a group of young adult-film workers, reenvisions the golden age of the slasher flick; the period that transformed the horror genre and washed over the American psyche like a massive, unavoidable wave.