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Challengers Is a Brutal Game of Desire

In Luca Guadagnino’s 2022 film, Bones and All , Maren (Taylor Russell) and Lee (Timothee Chalamet) were cannibals in love. “I don’t wanna hurt...

Annie Berke

Brutality, in all its physical and psychological dimensions, has long been Yorgos Lanthimos’s cruel mistress. In The Killing of a Sacred Deer ,...

In writer-director Alexander Payne’s 2017 film, Downsizing , Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) chooses to shrink down and live at five inches tall. By...