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17. Fargo

score by Carter Burwell Carter Burwell’s score for Fargo is the perfect aural expression of the film’s chief theme of hardscrabble Midwestern dignity. The lilting main melody is lifted from a Norwegian folk song, appropriate given the ethnic makeup of...

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24. Requiem for a Dream

score by Clint Mansell Even if you’ve never seen Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream there’s a good chance you’ve heard part of Clint Mansell’s iconic score. For a couple years there in the early-‘aughts, the title theme “Lux Aeterna”...

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World Built, by Matt Warren

If you’re reading Battleship Pretension, then clearly you’re no slouch when it comes to film appreciation. You’ve undoubtedly seen it all—from blockbuster blow-‘em-ups to art house what-the-fucks. You’re a jaded cinematic black belt, a hyper-literate consumer and connoisseur of the...

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Overflow, by Matt Warren

Look motherfucker, if you know about the Human Centipede franchise already then you certainly don’t need me to tell you whether or not to see Part 3. Are faces sewn to buttholes and force-fed human shit? Yes! Are new orifices...

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Merrily, Merrily, by Matt Warren

My previous encounters with the work of impish French surrealist Quentin Dupieux have not gone bon. I jettisoned his killer-tire debut feature Rubber from my Netflix queue after just eight scant minutes of scabby-eyed indifference. His follow-up, the audience-trolling conspiracy...

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Which Way to the Exit?, by Matt Warren

Maps to the Stars is the shittiest movie of David Cronenberg’s career. I never saw that one about a hairlip Ralph Fiennes bumping into catacomb walls or that one where Carl Jung ejaculates into Kiera Knightley’s bulldog underbite, but there’s...

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