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The year’s two finest Hitchcockian thrillers — one extravagantly designed and doomily emotional, the other a model of spare, efficient suspense technique — could scarcely have been more urgently of the moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2022

“Annette” and “West Side Story” The movie musical at its most doomily romantic, in which both Leos Carax and Steven Spielberg prove themselves untested masters of the form.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021

“Ooh you’re getting close, you’re getting close!” they told her doomily.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2016