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Had me constantly pumping my fist for two hours, until Saulnier dropped the unfortunate revelation that he believes in some cops being Not Actually Bad—immediately after an excellently poignant moment that plays on that kind of expectation, to boot—even the one that made up a reason to detain a man, at the very beginning of the movie. Police brutality is fine, as long as they don't participate in the larger, nebulous conspiracy, I guess...?
The issue isn't even in its…
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Any movie that succeeds in making you feel so ready to fight a newborn baby like they're a Bloodborne boss is okay, in my book.
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There's a level of engagement that I feel is often missing in public discussions regarding The Matrix; everyone's on board with the black leather, the sunglasses, the guns, that particular brand of, "punk," but people often dismiss its grander, post-apocalyptic scenario - the actual, tangible oppression that is ingrained in the series' text - the latter of which, by the way, is as true a cyberpunk realisation as its hacker-driven, cyberspace-centric side. That kind of disagreement to engage with the…
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Probably the greatest movie I kept rolling my eyes at. There's a scene here where Miles had the concept of multiversal consta—sorry, "canon event," beaten into his head, and it just had to be juxtaposed against archival footage from pre-existing Spider-Man films and TV show. Live-action cameos that opened the doors to the worst kind of possibilities, with zero attempt at marrying the two medium's visual styles, that ends up highlighting how much this current media-crossover-masked-as-multiverse trend feels like an…
