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Perfect Days 2023
A meditative and almost therapeutic experience from the first minute. Hirayama in Perfect Days is an absolute delight to watch, go by performing the most mundane activities with all the sweet little moments in between.
It's a life to reflect on, as much as there is to admire. A story of contentness that probably is lacking in the current landscape of cinema and storytelling at large. There is a delicate balance, a degree of idealization lent by the culture and…
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Black Adam 2022
In one scene a kid giddily speaks with the titular character that his super hero persona could land him merchandise, comics and be a part of the super hero industrial complex - I am just barely paraphrasing the dialogue on account that I'm reciting it off memory. This is fairly early on and but a taste of how the movie carries itself. It's not necessarily bad for a movie to be self-aware but this was definitely not the good kind.…
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The Art of Self-Defense 2019
What's there to say when the subtext is the text in this deadpan dark comedy? I guess it was funny at times and ends in a far more ridiculous (but good) fashion than it starts which is great.
This is quite the quintessential type of role Jesse Eisenberg seems to play.
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