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Mickey 17 2025
A delightful performance from Robert Pattinson is the highlight of what otherwise is a pretty fun, but forgettable romp. Certainly full of the strong authorial voice you would expect from Bong Hoon Jo’s work, but his sociopolitical commentary isn’t breaking any new ground in this one. Indeed, we’re all Mickey these days, but we don’t have his neatly packaged path to a happily ever after, which makes the whole piece ring hollow of wishful thinking.
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Young Hearts 2024
If I had a nickel for every time a queer Dutch coming of age film set in a farming community that, while in Europe, looks remarkably similar to central New York moved me to tears I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
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Close 2022
A brilliant sophomore film from Lukas Dhont. Despite sparse dialogue, the film is incredibly articulate about masculinity and how we socialize our boys. Stunning visual composition lends intense clarity of perspective throughout the changing seasons of the film. Dhont does not shy away from bold, expressive imagery, but manages to avoid feeling trite, as it is all juxtaposed with a nuanced, astonishingly naturalistic performance by the stellar cast.
Close explores the tenderness and intimacy of friendship between boys, and the…
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Emilia Pérez 2024
Unbearable, and for the least interesting reasons. Truly, ignoring all other legitimate and exaggerated criticisms of the content, this movie is poorly written and executed. Somehow Zoe Saldaña is delivering an incredible performance amidst the garbage heap, and it’s hilarious that she’s being campaigned as featured actress when the film is unquestionably tracing her perspective through the entire story. But anyway, you can never predict what’s going to happen next, and somehow the choice they make is always worse than what you imagined.
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