“This is not your mother’s Wuthering Heights!” the movie howls back at the wind whipping over those moors.”
“An atheist and a satanist walk into a bone temple…”
“Pandora has been populated by something unexpected and extraordinary: compelling characters.”
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“… understands the urgency of this moment.”
“… a scrappy, neo-realist tale of societal scrounging that’s paused by poetic moments of slow cinema.”
“Unusually sensitive, in the sense that every element seems to pulse with its own life force. . .”
“… has significant Ash Wednesday resonance.”
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“One more errant car* away from being a camp classic…”
“… appears to owe a great debt to Otto Preminger’s Laura.”
“… a rough draft for Manhattan.”
