The East (2013)

Probably created with an Alias/12 Monkeys tv series in mind, this drama is about an uncharismatic ecoterrorist group whose daft eating habits, awkward bathing rituals, dullard Charles Manson lookalike leader and soapbox politics are supposedly so intoxicating they cause the undercover agent infiltrating the group (Brit Marling) to question her loyalties.

★☆☆☆☆

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Melancholia (2011)

Stultifying in its attempts at sumptuousness and profundity, particularly in its first half, Melancholia, a melodrama about the world's least fun wedding played out as a planet heads on a collision course with Earth, is nonetheless so stunningly photographed, so well-acted by Kirsten Dunst, and so curious a work that it manages to overcome its many failings to be, well, watchable.

★★☆☆☆

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