Black Bag? More like I'm Gagged. John le Carre via blackbox theatre. Slick as socks on marble, and the kind of trashy sophistication I love Soderbergh doing.
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Jojo Rabbit 2019
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I'm thinking about what this movie would have looked like had Jojo not been considered too incompetent to fully act out the horrors of the Nazi party. I'm thinking about the movie's hesitance to call Jojo a Nazi, about how Scarlett Johansson's character does not teach her child in specific political terms - only broad platitudes about love and peace. I'm thinking about her death, and what it means to have left behind a young, impressionable boy without having specifically…
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
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A lot of the reviews I've read that try to tackle Raimi's filmmaking sensibilities tend to separate the technical finesse from the emotive power of the technique, as well as the actual perspective his particular cinematic universes all have, which has sort of put Raimi in this nebulous zone of a guy who has a particular style in a particular genre, but ultimately sort of misses the point. Raimi is a guy who, thematically, only works between emotive extremes, and…
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