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Conclave 2024
The exposition unfolds like a video game, with rising stakes and Cardinals falling from grace as their dark secrets are exposed. This is heightened by sharp editing and a haunting score by Volker Bertelmann, whose trademark twangs add eerie tension.
Despite all the smoke and mirrors surrounding the Vatican and the Holy See, men run it. By human beings who sin. Lawrence speaks to those men, saying, “Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt.…
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Interstellar 2014
When I saw it on the big screen for the first time, with surround sound and a dedicated interval, my affection for the film was solidified. It was then that the enormity of what the film was saying dawned on me.
It made me reflect on the future, especially the world my generation will inherit — a world that’s vast, frightening, and filled with unknowns.
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The Fable 2024
The crackling of a fire, the crunch of fallen leaves, footsteps on a wooden floor, the flapping of wings, the cranking of an engine, the silence of intentional listening as someone sings without music, and the sound of a mother telling her children unreal bedtime stories — all turn into a cacophony of storytelling that doesn’t just ask you to feast your eyes, but your ears, too.
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All We Imagine as Light 2024
Kapadia isn’t telling the story of distraught divorcées or unfulfilled adults having mid-life crises. As necessary as those stories are, she has written the story of three women, a tale that, perhaps, is one of so many people in Mumbai. We know enough about the local trains, the lack of square footage in the city, and the urban alienation that comes from a thankless and exhausting job. The film doesn’t waste time on those frustrations.
The focus is on the…
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