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Mickey 17 2025
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Probably benefited from me going in knowing this was divisive on here. The criticisms that it's too long and that there's too much voiceover are true but this worked for me. The length is most felt when there's moments where you realize you are going to see something unfold that you know is going to happen, but there are also scenes that felt unpredictable, set pieces deviating from the overall machinery. Not all the jokes land but some do. There…
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The Devil 1972
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"They should explain the movie," the man sitting behind me said to his companion when this was over, one of the most bitchmade things I've ever heard, presuming I'm using the term "bitchmade" correctly. As is typical of Zulawski, you are not really eased into things, it's psychotic from the get-go, but c'mon man, it's called The Devil. The guy in black with a goatee is the Devil. There's a part where someone says to him, about Jakub, the main…
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Don't Look Now 1973
This isn’t my favorite Nicolas Roeg movie. The aggressive editing I think of as his trademark is in stronger form elsewhere, and maybe feels overdone at times here. For instance, while people rave about the sex scene in this, I prefer the one in The Man Who Fell To Earth. But there is something still very compelling about this, and watching the scene where Donald Sutherland almost falls to his death in the church he’s restoring, I realized what it…
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The French Dispatch 2021
Wes Anderson is the live-action director whose visual sensibility comes closest to that of an animation director, and this was shot in Angouleme, a city most known for hosting the premier international comics festival. I think a large part of the backlash against Wes Anderson stems from ideas of cartoons being for children, and live-action films being the province of adults; as the director delves deeper into his art-directed minutiae, he approaches a sort of visual rigor that leaves a…
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