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Empire z region 254/6/2023 ![]() All the way to the end, Men is pretty blunt with what it’s about, as have all Garland’s films thus far been. Aside from these two criticisms being in opposition to one another, I don’t think either one is true. Much of the criticism it has received has been founded on either it being too obviously allegorical or just falling apart into abstraction. One of the more polarising films of the year – and there’s been a few already – Alex Garland’s film Men did little to hide its obvious thematic intentions from it’s very title. When asked to provide a lineup of their absolute favourite movies of the year so far, Film Obsessive’s reviewing team Hal Kitchen, Don Shanahan, Tina Kakadelis and J Paul Johnson came through with such an eclectic assortment of choices that there was hardly any overlap between our lists at all! Men It’s an interesting time for cinema which feels less predictable now than at any time in recent memory, with many of the most hyped releases feeling eminently disposable and great movies coming from places you’d never have known to look. Of course Marvel are still holding strong, although the discourse around each of their six million new releases has never felt more fractious or uneasy, with lukewarm receptions and combative discourse arising due to challenges from more offbeat underdogs like Everything Everywhere All at Once. ![]() With long delayed movies like Top Gun: Maverick finally releasing and distributors seemingly deciding what goes to streaming and what to theatres on a roulette wheel, it’s been a typically oddball six months for cinema. With life slowly starting to return to “normal” after the COVID pandemic, 2022 might for many be the first full year in the last three when cinemas are reopened.
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