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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
Less layered thematically than Dune and the visuals were a touch-less jaw-dropping but I found the protagonist’s motivations to be more coherent and the cinematic universe to be close to as interesting. The movie is better though when there is someone being chased and the middle part felt a bit less compelling even when the action scenes kept me somewhat mesmerized.
It is a good movie that I don’t imagine I will remember much about five years from now.Translated from by -
Evil Does Not Exist 2023
This feels in line with Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves thematically but also with its foreboding atmosphere, naturalistic fixations, expectations subversion and ambiguous ending. Night Moves, however, misses the forest for the trees (pun intended) I think whereas EDNE sinisterly lingers in a way that is less dependent on a conventional plot, and arrives at a conclusion much more poetic and grandiose.
Hamaguchi has a way of putting the audience in a trance that isn’t really replicated elsewhere and he succeeds…
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Porcelain War 2024
I’m not sure this one totally comes together. It’s purported to be about art and artists but I found that aspect of the film to be a bit thin and not explored with much depth.
There is some pretty insane footage in here depicting modern warfare though and it makes you feel the risks that ordinary people take to defend their country. There is also some interesting commentary on how Ukrainians view the attempted Russian takeover.
Some of the interviews felt a little overwrought, could have used some more editing.
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Challengers 2024
This is one of the more fantastical sports movies that somehow identifies psychological wrinkles about sports that few if any others articulate.
it is somehow wildly unrealistic in terms of the mechanics of a tennis ball strike but gets the physicality and how the sport feels and sounds better than other tennis movies and has little nuggets of minutia to keep the tennis diehards entertained.
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