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Dustin Chang

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An adventurous spectator and an occasional practitioner of all things cinema.

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Hokum (2026) 88% EDIT “Once the mechanics of action are laid out- which takes some time, the film begins to click in its scary ways. And as with Caveat and Oddity, Hokum is scary, good fun. ” – Floating World May 7, 2026 Full Review Silent Friend (2025) 100% EDIT “Silent Friend can be seen as narratively unsatisfying, by not tying up its threads neatly enough. But it reminds us that fleeting human existence and brief, yet meaningful connections that are what matters, in the eons of time.” – ScreenAnarchy Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Our Land (2025) 97% EDIT “As with her narrative films, which show the satiric lives of the Argentine upper-class and the state's ugly colonial history, Martel shines a light on the daily struggles of her country's indigenous population.” – ScreenAnarchy Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) 95% EDIT “Miyake goes on sketching out the human connections among strangers in a gentle, playful, abstract way, blurring both fiction and real life/creator and its creations.” – ScreenAnarchy Apr 22, 2026 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% EDIT “The Love That Remains emphasizes that we live with nature and all our incongruities are part of the elements, not separate entities, nothing more. Pálmason humbles you in different ways in the presence of nature.” – Floating World Apr 12, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 93% EDIT “Exit 8 has a potential to have millions of ways to explore the existential dread and be the creepiest, most effective modern horror film. But instead, Kawamura settles on the Spielbergian narrative. I miss the late 90s, early 2000 J-horror haydays.” – Floating World Apr 12, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 90% EDIT “Not in so many words, Ozon is suggesting that Meursault's ennui and senseless actions are deeply rooted in colonialism and injustices that were out in the open for everyone to see.” – ScreenAnarchy Apr 12, 2026 Full Review Yes (2025) 91% EDIT “A loud satire that reflects the uncomfortable present that the artistic community find themselves in, between a rock and a hard place, in an increasingly military fascist state. ... It's an obnoxiously pointy and honest, yet sad film.” – ScreenAnarchy Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% EDIT “It's a great debut by an intense artist who is serious about filmmaking and its messages. ” – Floating World Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “Dan Trachtenberg continues the winning streak with Predator: Badlands is from the alien trophy hunter's point of view with his hefty Shakespearean backstory with the Oedipal complex and brotherhood and betrayal and revenge and so on.” – Floating World Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Sound of Falling (2025) 94% EDIT “Mascha Schillinski explores the lives of young women and their surroundings. Layered, highly cinematic images have cumulative effects, as they are imbued with secret meanings and intimate knowledges. ” – Floating World Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 83% EDIT “With this new overproduced documentary, Peck connects some dots while ignoring others, ends in conclusion with "people have power", which in this terrible world we are living in, doesn't land as powerful and hopeful as before but almost sounding naive. ” – Floating World Jan 30, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 88% EDIT “At this point, the zombie genre is done to death. Or so I thought until I watched the Australian film We Bury the Dead. And it's a decent one, carefully avoiding the pitfalls of the genre tropes and being too sentimental. ” – Floating World Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Keeper (2025) 49% EDIT “Keeper develops into a delicious folk horror territory, but not with a clearly defined plot. And like other Perkins films, narrative thread is not the selling point, but atmosphere is and unsettling images are. This film has a lot of that. ” – Floating World Jan 30, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “Wildly uneven, but ten times better than its predecessor, The Bone Temple only exists to serve as a stepping stone for the third movie that links back to its original. But this is all Ralph Fiennes. Me, an unabashed Fiennes fan, have no complaints. ” – Floating World Jan 30, 2026 Full Review The Last Movie (1971) 47% EDIT “Studded with appearance by Hopper's friends, and heady with the metaphors for filmmaking, the US cultural colonialism and jump cuts, The Last Movie is full of grand ideas and stunning scenery (shot by László Kovács) but doesn't come together coherently. ” – Floating World Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Air Doll (2009) 64% EDIT “The film is closer to Spielberg's A.I- Dark yet saccharine. There are secondary stories of other characters we get only glimpses of, and don't quite resonate as it should. Air Doll is not quite the right fit for genteel filmmaker.” – Floating World Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Ariel (2025) EDIT “With stunning Azores' backdrop and his signature color tinted images, Patiño creates another hypnotic, dreamy film that is both thoughtful and whimsical. ” – Floating World Dec 30, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “The Secret Agent is about rebuking anti-intellectualism by having university researchers both past and present the heroes of the film which is also very pertinent in our own political climate. ” – Floating World Dec 24, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “It's all about the hole both physical and metaphysical- the hole in the ceiling, the hole in the daughter's belly, giving birth, the black hole and the unknown universe, the empty space in Linda's life... ” – Floating World Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Ramsay makes a point that the film is not about Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) suffering from depression, but how a young woman is perceived when she behaves outside societal norms. ” – Floating World Dec 22, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “OBAA is a fantasy, based on Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, which was published in 1990 in the throes of the Bush Sr. regime. If anything, it shows that nothing much has changed- the kidnapping and deportation of the undocumented & overarching racism. ” – Floating World Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% EDIT “As Bugonia progresses to an absurdist territory with much blood shed, you are left with that cold feeling that we are supremely manipulated to and fro for laughs. But who is laughing anyway? ” – Floating World Nov 29, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “The film touches upon a lot of modern society's illness with satirical humor. And usual, Park Chanwook is a first and foremost visual stylist. There's more visual ideas in No Other Choice than most Hollywood releases in a year combined. ” – Floating World Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% EDIT “Linklater, coming from the experimental indie filmmaking background, knows his history of cinema and understands how to pay homage without being nostalgic and sentimental about the New Wave and its influences that had on him as a filmmaker.” – Floating World Nov 20, 2025 Full Review
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