Justin Chang
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1,638 appearances
51 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Justin Chang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But what gives it its peculiar power is that it presents Nikki, not Bear, as the story's true victim.
Bear's wish is a supreme violation of her emotional, spiritual, and physical autonomy, and Navaretti's astonishing performance dramatizes an internal clash between two Nickys.
She doesn't just go off the rails.
We see her, at every step, struggling to stay on the rails.
By the time Barker drops a direct reference to The Exorcist, it's already clear that Obsession is a demonic possession movie.
It uses the prism of genre to speak to issues of consent, male loneliness, and how even a guy as seemingly kind and sensitive as Bear can become a woman's worst nightmare.
The first Cannes Film Festival I ever attended, in May 2006, was a deliriously star-studded affair.
Penelope Cruz, Ethan Hawke, and Kirsten Dunst walked up the red-carpeted steps.
Future Oscar hopefuls like Volvaire, Babel, and Marie Antoinette competed for the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize.
There were world premieres of blockbusters like The Da Vinci Code and X-Men The Last Stand.
Terrible movies, but great photo ops.
And near the end of the festival, I walked into a film I knew nothing about called Pan's Labyrinth and emerged knowing I'd seen a classic.
This year's Cannes kicked off with a 20th anniversary screening of Pan's Labyrinth.
But otherwise, there wasn't much of that 2006-era razzle-dazzle.
the major Hollywood studios tightened their belts and stayed home, perhaps with still-fresh memories of the stinging Cannes reception for the last Indiana Jones movie back in 2023.
But there were stars here and there.
Demi Moore and Stellan Skarsgård were on this year's jury.
Adam Driver and Miles Teller showed up for the world premiere of James Gray's terrific 1986 set crime drama, Paper Tiger.
in which they play brothers who unwisely go into business with the Russian mob.
Driver and Teller are outstanding, and Scarlett Johansson is heartbreakingly good as a family member forced to deal with the fallout.
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