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Mickey 17 2025
How rare is it for a director to follow their best film with their worst? The word that comes to mind here is clunky. Awkward. Ungraceful. Rambling. Aside from the pervasively predictable, unsubtle nature of the satire, the thing that bothered me most about Mickey 17 was its total lack of rhythm and organic pacing. There's a lingering, "extra" quality to most scenes and bits that I found just exhausting and the plot layout is horrendous. Conversations take weird diversions…
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First Reformed 2017
Something tells me this one is gonna linger on my spirit for a long time. Rewatches inevitable. Perhaps a dream or two as well. Despair clothes most every scene yet I found the entire viewing experience deeply mysterious and hypnotic. There’s a lot I wanna talk about but I don’t think doing so immediately after my first watch would do the film justice. Think of the four stars as a tentative rating.
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Still Walking 2008
I needed this.
Aside from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Hirokazu Kore-eda is perhaps the only director whose films can completely put me at ease. For two hours, the world slows down and I am allowed to silently communicate with the wealth of subtleties and softly spoken truths a Kore-eda picture holds. Still Walking is no different. It's serene, patient and quiet. In saying these things, I am of course tiptoeing around the most obvious descriptor of all, which is "delicate." Delicacy is…
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The Descent 2005
A claustrophobic's nightmare.
...But not mine, unfortunately.
To be honest, the idea of an increasingly bloody and disturbing descent into a proverbial hell through tight tunnels and suffocating caverns sounds positively terrifying. But I didn't find The Descent even a little frightening and I'm still trying to figure out why.
After a tragic accident, a woman joins a group of friends on a spelunking trip. Everything goes wrong when a tunnel collapses and the women are left groping for another…
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