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Civil War 2024
Well color me pleasantly surprised! I threw this on HBO while I made dinner, kind of expecting it to stink, but it might now be my favorite Garland movie? It's definitely got the most round characters he's ever written, is visually very nice (at times poetic, even), and contains several scenes that I found brutally effective. The Plemons scene, in particular, stands out, both for my man's performance and for how it changes the entire ecosystem of the movie. Before…
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Wild Strawberries 1957
All the memories and dreams felt very moving and unsettling (respectively, for the most part) but, if I'm being honest, I didn't find Dr. Borg's journey as a character quite as cathartic as I would have wished. I think I found it hard to feel like he gained anything in the way of insight, because it never really felt like he had anything at stake besides, maybe, an attachment to his own loneliness and cynicism. I'd say I might just need to watch it again at a point in life when I have more regrets, but, well...
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Really torn because, on the one hand, sweet, dumb, high-concept stuff is usually my jam, but, on the other hand, this movie is a mess—and not in a way that ever complicates its very black-and-white world view. Some of the jokes were funny (most definitely weren't) some of the emotional moments hit (but mostly by relying on incredibly familiar tropes to do the heavy lifting) and, yeah, it's visually engaging. Definitely not as clever or actually even as weird as it thinks it is. It's just ok!
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Crossing Delancey 1988
Very effective; really took me all the way from “fuck this pickle man,” to “fuck this pickle man, please!”
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