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Dune 2021
Dune is a masterpiece - the only disappointment of this movie is that it’s so clearly only the beginning of the story. Even though the movie is not short, I want to spend more time in these epic worlds that Villeneuve has created. Obviously Arrakis is the main star of the show, with the giant sand worms and the dunes and the spice freighters, but even the Atreides home planet feels both grand and real. The visuals are stunning and…
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
This is probably the best Godzilla movie in the last decade, and I can only not go further back because I just haven’t seen all of the Godzilla movies. But beyond that, G-1 is just a good movie. Every Monsterverse movie I’ve seen tries to make the human characters meaningful; some succeed, most do not. G-1 is the first Godzilla movie I’ve seen where even if Godzilla wasn’t a part of the movie, I’d still be down to watch how…
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American Symphony 2023
This felt less like a documentary and more like an ad. And I still feel like the most I know about him is that he was in the band for Colbert - I didn't really get a sense of the titular symphony or his artistic thought process behind it, nor his album that won so many Grammy Awards and seemingly gave him the platform that he had. I suppose the symphony itself is a different product than this documentary, and the one I should have watched instead.
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Robot Dreams 2023
This was such a beautiful movie, and not what I expected when I heard this was a French animation. But there's really no language here except what's expressed visually, and the visuals are exquisite. You really get into this alternative NYC, which is a little old school but still within striking distance of today and our disconnected reality. That makes the emotional arcs of loneliness, abandonment, rediscovery and acceptance hit much harder - we're a community that does manufacture relationships a little, and they're both sometimes short lived and replaceable, but still meaningful for as long as they last.
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
About 60 minutes of this documentary are absolutely fascinating. Seeing the images from various medical procedures, from endoscopies to eye surgeries to C sections to even autopsies, just focused on the art of the images not the process itself, is fascinating. Definitely not an easy watch if you’re at all icky about body stuff like I am, but it’s worth powering through it to see the art of the human body. The director also layers over the procedures with the…
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Green Border 2023
This is a brutal watch. It’s not just misery or tragedy voyeurism, though the first part does traffic in the repeated back and forth across borders that folks go through on the Poland - Belarus border. That depiction is powerful, but what elevates this movie is how it lays bare on the Polish side the hypocrisy of the law vs the extrajudicial nature of the emergency zone, and how it impacts activist, residents, even the border patrol agents. It’s not…
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