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Days have lost delineation, season’s anticipations in limbo; monotony, intimidating, threatening benign ennui, Netflix to the rescue:

“TIGER KING”: surprisingly compelling, the “catfighting” saga between  “polar” forces: Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, Don Antle, all under the guise of animal protection, procreation; as an urbanite I found the intensity of the protagonists captivating; producer Rick Kirkman, fairly narrates all sides of this reality drama.

FOUR STARS!!!!

“TIGERTAIL”, (MANDARIN/CHINESE: ENGLISH SUBTITLES): director Alan Yang’s semi-autobiographical story of one man’s journey from Taiwan to New York City; poignancy runs amuck as does the scenario of a boy who marries for the wrong reasons, leaving his youthful lover, in order to live in squalor in America.

TWO STARS!!

“THE KILLING OF SACRED DEER”, (Reviewed 11/1/17). Devotees of Homer’s “Iliad” will admire this contemporary version of Iphigenia, King Agamemnon’s daughter; Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell capture the familial disintegration in director Yorgos Lanthimos’s rendition of this mythological chronicle.

THREE STARS!!!

“THE DECLINE”,  (FRENCH: ENGLISH SUBTITLES). A survivalist camp in a remote Canadian compound, creates an arena for the “survival of the fittest”; a slow commencement leads to a catastrophic conclusion. 

THREE & ½ STARS!!!

For concentrative entertainment revisit 2002’s “The Road to Perdition” and 2017’s “Molly’s Game”.

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