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Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “Not living in the physical is Will’s sin and punishment, and yet it’s his habitation of imagination that leads to its identification — by the narrative, and ostensibly by the characters — as the supreme (and universal) human relativity. ” – The Treatment (Substack) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review The French Dispatch (2021) 75% EDIT “Sazerac’s segment is shorter because it need only deliver the thesis statement: the Western union of aggrandization and destruction.” – The Treatment (Substack) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% EDIT “I think the foremost poetry in Twinless lies in the fact that, with this plot that depends upon dishonesty from its characters, it reaches a level of honesty that most films do not.” – The Treatment (Substack) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% EDIT “If there is so much as a fracture in whatever keeps you insulated from the world, you are equipped to zoom out (or whatever the opposite of squint is) and effectively recognize F1 as a horror movie.” – The Treatment (Substack) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “If you’re rebooting the Anaconda franchise, the approach taken here is about as close to objectively correct as it can be.” – The Treatment (Substack) Feb 7, 2026 Full Review 45 Years (2015) 96% EDIT “What do we stand to gain by witnessing this willful attachment to one’s victimhood in existential defiance of the rich multitudes contained in a lifetime? This certainly isn’t the film you make if want to indict that, so why entertain it?” – The Treatment (Substack) Feb 7, 2026 Full Review Untitled Home Invasion Romance (2025) 77% EDIT “I didn’t enjoy this at all, but I can’t deny that it works.” – The Treatment (Substack) Feb 7, 2026 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 23% EDIT “Ella McCay’s characters ending most every interaction with "I love you" is the core thesis of its novel, faux-reckless storytelling approach.” – The Treatment (Substack) Feb 7, 2026 Full Review Adaptation (2002) 90% EDIT “Kaufman’s experience is not for me, just as my experience is not for anybody else, just as the experience that Charlie commits to at the outset of Adaptation is not for him.” – The Treatment (Substack) Jan 31, 2026 Full Review Until Dawn (2025) 52% EDIT “There is absolutely, positively nothing that embodies the state of gaming better than a movie based on a game that does "game" better than said game, which is trying to be a movie.” – The Treatment (Substack) Jan 25, 2026 Full Review The Colour Out of Space (2010) EDIT “And so Die Farbe — in my mind — exemplifies the natural, humanist evolution of cosmic horror; studiously playing by the genre’s misanthropy-coded rules, but ultimately finding a way to honour the power of the human expression/imagination.” – The Treatment (Substack) Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “So while Wicks is the force we root against, the actual conflict is, again, between Jud and Blanc, i.e. between storytelling and the whodunit, i.e. between religion and fear.” – The Treatment (Substack) Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Guacamole Yesterdays (2024) EDIT “It tracks, then, that artists have a storied history with pro-friction narratives.” – The Treatment (Substack) Jan 1, 2026 Full Review Fireplace for Your Home (2008) EDIT “One of postmodernism's most enduring works.” – The Treatment (Substack) Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Xeno (2025) 88% EDIT “the goal isn’t really to challenge Alien so much as to illuminate the nature of morality using Alien as a foil.” – The Treatment (Substack) Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Shelby Oaks (2023) 55% EDIT “My question then becomes this: Why contrive a gratuitous, traditional, familial emotional core around a film whose natural interests seem clearly divorced from that tradition and those emotions?” – The Treatment (Substack) Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Don't Die (2023) EDIT “What’s so interesting about this is how the film rightly insists upon altruism, but also recognizes that evil loves — and tends to be exceedingly capable of — passing itself off as altruism” – The Treatment (Substack) Nov 28, 2025 Full Review Clocking the T (2018) EDIT “Clocking the T, then, is comedic romance looking to evolve into the dutiful erotic, and encourages us to do the same.” – The Treatment (Substack) Nov 28, 2025 Full Review Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 95% EDIT “The Nightmare Before Christmas is a robustly metamodernist examination of the intersections between Christianity, paganism, scientific thought, and mythopoeic thought (and what that all means for the human condition)” – The Treatment (Substack) Nov 24, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% EDIT “In a film that’s fully committed to the beauty that can exist in lieu of barriers, how does one reconcile the act of recording as an entirely conceivable barrier in its own right?” – The Treatment (Substack) Nov 16, 2025 Full Review The Toxic Avenger (2023) 86% EDIT “Thus, if the 1984 film concerned itself with — in a sentence — frankness for the sake of the people, then the 2025 film ought to do that same thing, but in its own way.” – The Treatment (Substack) Nov 8, 2025 Full Review The Toxic Avenger (1984) 73% EDIT “There’s no diplomacy to be found here; the film knows it needn’t play with the specifics of the corruption amalgam or otherwise mythologize the villainy of the system; it trusts the audience enough to not be corpo-worshipping morons.” – The Treatment (Substack) Nov 8, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “The reason it’s never explained why the Long Walk contributes to those things is because it... doesn’t. But a “thinly-drawn premise” never stopped the Vietnam draft, the War on Terror, or the indica that comprises NSPM-7.” – The Treatment (Substack) Nov 4, 2025 Full Review The Alto Knights (2025) 40% EDIT “Frank Costello — as pointed out on the film’s poster — “brought about the downfall of the American Mafia.” The natural direction for a film about his escapades, then, would be satire; cinema’s choice tool for bringing about downfall.” – The Treatment (Substack) Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Relay (2024) 82% EDIT “Indeed, we can accomplish quite a bit by focusing on each other first and the institutions second, just as any film worth watching — like Relay — focuses on its human thrust before the puzzle of the plot.” – The Treatment (Substack) Oct 24, 2025 Full Review
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