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Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Abrams). Bylines at NYT, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Art in America, Criterion, Reverse Shot, & elsewhere.
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Mutation as Metaphor: Body Horror’s Visceral Transformations

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By Violet Lucca, Jessica Kiang
| criterion.com
There are three unfortunate realities of writing a book about David Cronenberg: feeling unworthy of the task, actually sitting down and writing, and being asked about “body horror” over and over. The last of these is a social obligation made more difficult by the way, as both a genre and a discourse, its ever-thinning definition is used as a sheath to cover so much these days. Any bit of violence, gore, or goo—however brief or suggestive—means a film or TV show gets slapped with the label.
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One Battle After Another

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By Violet Lucca
| reverseshot.org
American Girl By Violet Lucca One Battle After Another Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, U.S., Warner Bros. This review contains plot spoilers. After his daughter has gone to the high school dance with two of her friends, a very hungover Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) settles down on his couch to watch Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966) while sucking on a roach.
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28 Days Later reviewed in 2002

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By Mark Kermode Verified, Adam Nayman Verified, Violet Lucca
| Sight & Sound Verified
With director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later hitting cinemas this week, we revisit Mark Kermode’s review of the first film in the franchise. 17 June 2025 After the mainstream meanderings of The Beach, this back-to-basics genre hybrid finds director Danny Boyle on home ground, delivering exactly the kind of pacey entertainment that once earned him the title of “the future of British film”.
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