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  • Snooze Quest

    ★★★

  • Human Nature

    ★★★

  • Into the Night

    ★★

  • Deadlock

    ★★★★

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  • Zelig

    Zelig

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Fantastic Mr. Fox

    ★★★★★

    'Fantastic' is a funny word. It reminds me of 'awesome' or 'terrific' or 'great' in that I understand they each originally communicated a degree of intensity and a sense of unrealness, sometimes beyond imagination. But now these words are overused, flatly positive superlatives interchangeable with 'excellent.'

    Mr. Fox is not excellent. He's egoistic, and even the moments of helping his family and animal community are at the cost of their continued reliance upon his self-styled, trademarked-pose brilliance. He's a different…

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  • The Keep

    The Keep

    ★★★

    “We’re done fighting. Now we’re the masters of the world.”

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

    There Will Be Concrete

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  • The Astronauts

    The Astronauts

    ★★★

    It's a fun little detour through imaginative spaces with colorful cutout photography. The playful style is reminiscent of Gilliam's later animations, and the titular astronauts carry some of that same rascally energy in their taunting interactions. 

    Considering this work was a contemporary of the Sputnik program, I suspect there is some anti-Soviet metaphor with the red-coded rocket and rival astronaut. The film was also Boro's first French production as a Polish immigrant who had lived through the era of enforced…

  • In the Mood for Love

    In the Mood for Love

    ★★★★

    With his "retrospective" program of already-controversial remixes now playing and soon releasing in a boxed set, I decided it's time to check out director Wong Kar-Wai's original films before they are removed and suppressed in their current form.

    "He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct."

    Lauded as one of the most romantic films of all time,…