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The film’s unconventional narrative construction and big, undeniable centerpiece dance sequence are little more than smoke and mirrors, distracting us from realizing that Flanagan’s script doesn’t have anything new or practical to say.

Tehran’s proxy groups may be diminished, but Iran still has its Quds Force, through which the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conducts nonstate and unconventional warfare.

It was at the Fortnight where Sean Byrne’s “Dangerous Animals” became the first shark film to ever screen during Cannes, and this unconventional locale is quietly befitting of the movie’s atypical premise and exciting execution.

And she’s currently kind of vying for recognition in both “Agatha All Along,” a kind of unconventional Marvel story about a coven of witches, and also “The Studio,” where she plays a Hollywood marketing executive.

There was something transgressive and liberating about an aesthetic that inverted not only good and bad taste but also conventional and unconventional morality.