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Asteroid City 2023
An extremely personal meditation on loss, the feeling of being unmoored, the terrifying unknown, and existentialism. A desert in the fifties thinking about space can't get more alienating, and it is the perfect backdrop for Anderson to consider that the liminal space of purpose.
Anderson questions, with some level of doubt, why we make things. Why does any of this matter? What's the meaning of art, performance, and technology?
There is a Brechtian way that Anderson examines these levels of…
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Days of Heaven 1978
A story about paradise found and lost. About a fractured love triangle doused in sweat from laboring the fields and lake water. Nature is biblical, indifferent and all the more sublime for it. For a short while there is harmony, but then again, a perfect person never existed.
Malick films everything with so much feeling; the oranges of opportunity and the solitude of blue hour. Everything about this film breathes and gets caught in the wind. Just a poem of a film.
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Four Lions 2010
Very dark, sharp satire about one of the least lighthearted subjects imaginable. A Comedy of terrors…ism that feels genuinely dangerous because its very existence is an act of audacity. The fact that this film manages to be as consistently funny as it is horrifying is nothing short of miraculous. Morris takes a cleverly humane approach to depicting his terrorists. Four Lions generates plenty of laughs through the banter and blunders of the jihadists, highlighting the gap between their self-delusion and…
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Hannah and Her Sisters 1986
It will never cease to be frustrating that gross people can make smart, tender, and funny films like this.
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Black Bag 2025
Svelte, stylish, and delightfully thrilling. Sonderberg and Koepp make a meal from the shared material of mistrust and fidelity that can come with both a marriage and a rogue spy. There is so much drama that comes from the personal it raises the stakes to the highest level without having to be extravagant in its set pieces. Of course, it also helps that Blanchet and Fassbender bring so much glamour that you can’t help but be fascinated by the precarious circumstances of their relationship. It’s pure fun but has enough gravity behind its existential themes to pack a satisfying punch.
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When Harry Met Sally... 1989
OK MY BOYFRIEND AND I ACCIDENTALLY STARTED THIS MOVIE ON NEW YEAR EVE ON A WHIM AND THE COUNTDOWN IN THE FILM MATCHED UP TO THE FUCKING SECOND OF THE REAL LIFE COUNTDOWN TO MIDNIGHT AND I AM GONNA RIDE THIS HIGH FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.
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