Suspiria (2018) - ★★★★★

I appreciate films that are loudly, brashly anti-fascist but I also appreciate films where the hated of fascism boils underneath the surface, no less energetic and furious for being cloaked in a layer of metaphor. This is textually a film about vanquishing an old guard built on lies—vanquishing them with violence, explicitly and pointedly with violence. Doctor Klemperer draws the connection most explicitly between the coven as a religion and the Third Reich, but we also see this in the targeting of Patricia the militant leftist and Klemperer the Holocaust survivor. Across all this is painted the omnipresent background of the Rote Armee Fraktion's ultimately failed campaign to purge Nazis from the upper ranks of German society. Guadagnino's Suspiria mourns their loss by juxtaposing it with Mother Suspiriorum's successful destruction of the parasitic faction of the coven, those who are content to merely survive and enjoy their power at the expense of the students who could just as…