‘Cloud’ Review: An Online Grift Has IRL Consequences in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Compellingly Wonky Thriller

Erratic, prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Pulse,” “Cure”) has, at his best, a peculiar genius for finding strangeness — often malevolence — gathering like dust in the shadowy corners of banal modern life. With “Cloud,” which has just been announced as Japan’s International Oscar submission, the filmmaker gives that impulse a compellingly enigmatic update, turning […]
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