Contributions from Anton Bitel | Little White Lies

Contributor Anton Bitel

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Festivals

Shin Godzilla – first look review

by Anton Bitel

This latest reboot of Japan’s longest-running movie franchise is big, fun and very dumb.
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Review

A Cure for Wellness

by Anton Bitel

Gore Verbinski’s macabre asylum thriller offers an intoxicating blend of mystery and surrealism.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Get Out

by Anton Bitel

Jordan Peele’s thoroughly modern horror examines racism in America with a sharp, darkly funny eye.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Home Ents

Discover the sly social critique of this Blaxploitation classic

by Anton Bitel

Is Gilbert Moses’ Willie Dynamite a paean to pimp life or a flamboyant allegory of the American Dream?
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Is this the most extreme 108 minutes in the history of Japanese cinema?

by Anton Bitel

Destruction Babies is raucous rebel filmmaking at its brutal best.
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Home Ents

Discover the strange legacy of this cross-border ’70s classic

by Anton Bitel

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia has inspired everything from Barton Fink to Swiss Army Man.
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Review

Split

by Anton Bitel

James McAvoy is on spine-tingling form in this effective thriller from M Night Shyamalan.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Home Ents

Discover the retrofuturist thrills of this modern anime classic

by Anton Bitel

Metropolis, Rintaro’s 2001 manga spin-off, is coming to DVD.
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Review

Endless poetry

by Anton Bitel

Alejandro Jodorowsky embarks on a(nother) mad, metaphysical quest for identity.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Home Ents

Discover the primal thrills of this prehistoric B-movie

by Anton Bitel

Dinosaurs are well and good, but One Million Years BC proves it is sex that really sells.