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Charlotte Simmons

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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) 87% 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) 69% 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) 87% 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 Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “Caught Stealing is an old-school American blockbuster — replete with a movie star, sex appeal, violence, and a handful of chuckles — that, perhaps paradoxically, is about the inevitability of reality, in all its decolonized expanse.” – The Treatment (Substack) Oct 24, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “What if One Battle After Another is daring the (majority) white male portion of its audience to quantify all Black women and queer people with the vices of individual human beings who happen to belong to those demographics?” – The Treatment (Substack) Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Freaky Tales (2024) 75% EDIT “The nutritious thrust of Freaky Tales is how — amidst the camp, combat, Nazi-stomping, and supernatural twinge — it frontloads an ode to personal power while insisting on that power’s presence within all of us.” – The Treatment (Substack) Sep 27, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% EDIT “Not only is its attitude towards codependency markedly impressive in scope and incision, but it also nods to the thematic baggage found across the horror genre, thereby highlighting the horror genre’s codependency with its own ideological history.” – The Treatment (Substack) Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “Eddington is a film that's home to my three favourite cryptids: Ari Aster, Joaquin Phoenix, and politics.” – The Treatment (Substack) Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “Superman is, primarily, an announcement. That announcement is metamodernism — not romanticizing, not deconstructing, but unearthing new ways forward using the power of curiosity.” – The Treatment (Substack) Aug 28, 2025 Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 75% EDIT “How does the artist’s internal struggle — quasi-immortalized by the artist’s externalization of that struggle — change when faced with the blind spots/fallacies of the truth they attempted to chase with that externalization?” – The Treatment (Substack) Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% EDIT “And here’s where Celine Song’s unique brand of compassion comes into play: Materialists tells us — and bear with me here — that there’s nothing wrong with being materialistic, because it’s more-or-less impossible not to be.” – The Treatment (Substack) Aug 13, 2025 Full Review
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