Black Bear

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an anxious exploration of the ways women are contorted by male artists, showing up aronofsky at his favorite subject. the conclusion leaves a lot of threads dangling in favor of unnecessary ambiguity and i continue to feel uneasy about male directors simply portraying the worst of themselves without further interrogation, but aubrey plaza's performance alone makes this worth watching. the two act structure is necessary for the second to work, but it is difficult to say if that retroactively makes the plodding first act good (it is certainly uncomfortable but also much more insular than the... read more