Mother! (2017)

A fleeting shot at the start hints very strongly at Darren Aronofsky's movie's whole but even so the movie goes on to tell its story three times; the first iteration, in which a young homemaker is too polite to ask two unwanted visitors to leave her house, is the most restrained, gleefully sinister and enjoyable, with the subsequent retellings just becoming noisier, more extreme, more crowded, and more unnecessary, not adding much to the parable that has already been determined by that opening moment.

★★★☆☆

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Pi (1998)

A neurotic loner good with numbers has his theory ratified that everything in nature is governed by a mathematical pattern when he strikes upon a mysterious string of digits of such import that ruthless businesspeople and kabbalists start dogging him, wanting to share in the numbers' secret, in Darren Aronofsky's low-budget thriller delivered in minimalist black and white and a shrill, shouty, alarming tone.

★★★★☆

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