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Dustin Chang

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An adventurous spectator and an occasional practitioner of all things cinema.

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Ariel (2025) EDIT “With stunning Azores' backdrop and his signature color tinted images, Patiño creates another hypnotic, dreamy film that is both thoughtful and whimsical. ” – Floating World Dec 30, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “The Secret Agent is about rebuking anti-intellectualism by having university researchers both past and present the heroes of the film which is also very pertinent in our own political climate. ” – Floating World Dec 24, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “It's all about the hole both physical and metaphysical- the hole in the ceiling, the hole in the daughter's belly, giving birth, the black hole and the unknown universe, the empty space in Linda's life... ” – Floating World Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Ramsay makes a point that the film is not about Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) suffering from depression, but how a young woman is perceived when she behaves outside societal norms. ” – Floating World Dec 22, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “OBAA is a fantasy, based on Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, which was published in 1990 in the throes of the Bush Sr. regime. If anything, it shows that nothing much has changed- the kidnapping and deportation of the undocumented & overarching racism. ” – Floating World Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “As Bugonia progresses to an absurdist territory with much blood shed, you are left with that cold feeling that we are supremely manipulated to and fro for laughs. But who is laughing anyway? ” – Floating World Nov 29, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “The film touches upon a lot of modern society's illness with satirical humor. And usual, Park Chanwook is a first and foremost visual stylist. There's more visual ideas in No Other Choice than most Hollywood releases in a year combined. ” – Floating World Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “Linklater, coming from the experimental indie filmmaking background, knows his history of cinema and understands how to pay homage without being nostalgic and sentimental about the New Wave and its influences that had on him as a filmmaker.” – Floating World Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 80% EDIT “It's usually the negative space behind the façade that looms over all of Lucille Hadžihalilović's films, keeping all the mysteries intact and bewitching us to come back time and time again to see her dark and hypnotic artistry. ” – Floating World Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Sentimental Value is not about one thing, but about a lot of things- parents, siblings, history, art, trauma, loneliness and most importantly, love. Something that AI can never reproduce or emulate, at least not yet. My favorite film of the year by far.” – Floating World Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Rabbit Trap (2025) 43% EDIT “Verging on magic realism, the moss and fungus invading the interior of the cottage as Davenports are put under the spell of the child is truly a wonder (thanks to production designer Lucie Red). Patel and McEwen have terrific chemistry together.” – Floating World Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “The story of a madman's obsession destroying everything he loves and blaming it on his own creation, their unbreakable bondage and finally forgiveness really moved me in the end. Del Toro created something classy and beautiful here. ” – Floating World Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Mr. K (2024) 79% EDIT “Mr. K harkens back to the wry humor and wild imagination that was a signature element in art-house cinema of the 90s and early 2000s.” – ScreenAnarchy Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% EDIT “It's not making a grand statement about the hopelessness of the state of the world. It shows how random death stalks, that grief is universal, that we can't ignore the suffering of others because, again, we are all in this together. ” – Floating World Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 94% EDIT “It's the idea of a perfect family that haunts Petzold's characters. And it is this tragedy in the modern world that Petzold keeps stressing with his films: yearning for an ideal world that never has materialized under the capitalist system.” – ScreenAnarchy Oct 7, 2025 Full Review The Fence (2025) 70% EDIT “With The Fence, the political message here is much more blunt. It’s a film that is more direct in messaging while retaining the sensuality and lyricism Denis is known for. ” – ScreenAnarchy Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% EDIT “Bi, with Kaili Blue and Long Days, cultivated cinema as a waking dream with languorous filmic language with implausibly long takes and dreamlike atmosphere. Resurrection, its ironic title notwithstanding, is an elegy to the cinema and its history.” – Floating World Oct 5, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “After being released from his jail sentence & years of house arrest in 2023, the prolific Iranian filmmaker doesn't shy away from being bluntly critical about the totalitarian regime of his country, while showing ordinary people's humanity not being lost.” – Floating World Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 66% EDIT “As the animated dildos penetrated actors from behind for the umpteenth time, I wished the film, which had made its point from the get-go, had ended an hour ago.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 28, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “Reichardt's unique small films and her gentle way of depicting loneliness and isolation are truly remarkable. But when the scale of her project gets bigger and more complicated -- like her take on a genre film, the result is less emotionally engaging.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 28, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Over-exposition kills the movie magic. There's no mystery left. Cregger understands that. ” – Floating World Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “Caught Stealing can be set present day or any other time in New York city's checkered history. Sure there's a talk of gentrification, Giuliani and Mets, but no one in the movie seems to be affected by them at all. ” – Floating World Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Suspended Time (2024) 66% EDIT “It's light, playful and nostalgic and features an artist being forced to pause, reflect, and ultimately enjoy life.” – ScreenAnarchy Aug 6, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “Muddled in its messaging, the film plays out like a sub-par South Park episode, a vanity project of a self-absorbed director who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. ” – Floating World Aug 1, 2025 Full Review What Does that Nature Say to You (2025) 100% EDIT “Hong, as usual, is showing his cynicism toward young artistic types. It's probably because he went through that phase himself and now can look back and have a laugh. ” – Floating World Jul 6, 2025 Full Review
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