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Apr 29, 2024 · Evil Does Not Exist. “You can’t get a head start if you aim for perfection,” a clueless moneyed entrepreneur muses during a video chat with his two shell-shocked subordinates in the new film from writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. In the context of the actual conversation the sentiment is even more inane than it sounds on the face of it.
May 2, 2024 · By Manohla Dargis. May 2, 2024. Late in “Evil Does Not Exist,” a man who lives in a rural hamlet an easy drive from Tokyo cuts right to the movie’s haunting urgency. He’s talking to two ...
May 14, 2024 · The result is a mesmerizing new movie, Evil Does Not Exist, that leaves behind the mostly urban settings of Hamaguchi's earlier films like Happy Hour and Asako I & II. It takes place in a rural ...
Sep 4, 2023 · A film about rural gentrification and community solidarity in Japan, with a score by Eiko Ishibashi and a twisty ending. The review praises the director's meditative and moving style, but questions the film's tone and message.
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A Japanese drama about a rural community facing a development project that threatens their way of life. Critics praise the film's quiet and entrancing perspective on humanity's relationship with nature, but some find it too slow and vague.
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May 11, 2024 · In this, Evil Does Not Exist leans toward a folk-horror tradition, as Hamaguchi slowly pivots away from dispassionate naturalism, building to an impressionistic, opaque finale. The provocation of ...
Sep 4, 2023 · By David Rooney. September 4, 2023 8:00am. Ryo Nishikawa in 'Evil Does Not Exist' NEOPA Fictive. What a strange, unpredictable film Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has made to follow his rapturously received ...
