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Aronofsky has toyed around the concepts of religion for a long span of his career. He took an audacious swing…

All These Sleepless Nights [2017] – Partying Hipsters & Dancing Realizations

All These Sleepless Nights [2017] – Partying Hipsters & Dancing Realizations Michał Marczak’s “All These Sleepless Nights” opens with a…

Review

A Decade On: There Will Be Blood [2007]

By David Morgan Brown

As entertaining and as captivating as it is, it is quite a disturbing and rather hopeless reflection of Western civilisation’s capitalist system, but its mirror is so simple, yet potent that it rings so incredibly close to the bone no matter who’s the United States president.

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Mother! [2017]: An Exercise in Gender Studies

By High on Films

If Noah was a misstep, mother! is pretty concrete proof that Aronofsky is back on firm footing and definitely seems to be equipped with a provocative edge to his dark sense of theatrical storytelling. He pushes, prods, provokes and stupefies. Aided by a hypnotic performance by Jennifer Lawrence, he does something a lot of filmmakers today forget to do: he makes watching a film a personal experience for each individual viewer.