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This review originally ran at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Which you should.Climaxis the best Noe has been in ages, and perhaps the mosthumanefilm hes ever done.

Once the convulsions and cutting and chaos take over, the word humane may seem like a stretch.

Thats because someone has spiked the sangria, and pretty soon everyones feeling it.

The group begins a collective, well-choreographed descent through stages of hallucinatory terror, orgiastic rage, and alienation.

The space is more than a little creepy, all cinderblocks and dingy curtains and shadowy hallways.

Maybe the building isnt haunted, but the ghost ofsomethingmakes the self-destruction of the group feel inevitable.

In a moment ripped right fromPossession,Boutella writhes, screaming as the drug-induced convulsive terror takes over.