I can see the Linklater in this film, but it might’ve been better if I couldn’t. Instead of adding depth and nuance to recreate the awkward reality of everyday life (even for a phony hit-man), the long shots, lack of non-diegetic sound and lingering conversations appear like amateur editing decisions that accidentally highlight on-the-nose dialogue and muddled tone. The “theme” is shoved down your throat in the most insultingly quintessential of ways: with not one but multiple scenes of Professor…
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Aftersun 2022
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It’s a special kind of sadness to become aware of your parents’ humanness through your own awakening to sorrow, loneliness, shame, guilt—to understand the pain that underscores their behavior as it is reflected in yours. Looking back on childhood memories, you can no longer feel a singular sadness for the child wounded by the parent, and instead find yourself carrying both of their pain. Aftersun feels less like a movie and more like a mind slowly crawling its way to…
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Don't Worry Darling 2022
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There’s a scene in this movie where Florence Pugh crushes an egg in her palm to find that it contains absolutely nothing inside its perfect shell. That’s what this movie was like.
A lot of the scenes were not scored, but Harry Styles’ fiends were kind enough to provide background noise with their incessant cackling. Sometimes their commentary was loud enough to drown out the dialogue too, which was fine because most of the movie served to shove one very…
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