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Queer 2024
Quite beautiful, quite devastating, and quite sobering. Hard not to relate to this as a man approaching late 30s. Plenty of gay movies do the “queer longing” thing but this is so much more than romantic pining, a true yearning for connection lost to the chase of an unattainable ideal, the belief that you can understand yourself by understanding someone else. Every door is closed, the Drew Starkey character a blank slate for projection, emanating just enough hostility to erode…
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Nightbitch 2024
Any Adams is at least completely committed and I owe my mom an apology for getting mad at her when she told me Adams looks like Amy Schumer in this movie!
Can’t imagine this would please anyone, really The central conceit is too weird for those who would find any sort of resonance with all these cliche and well-worn parenting observations. All the feelings expressed here are valid but this kind of didactic frankness is arriving at least a decade…
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Maria 2024
Happy I’m not on the hater’s train and found this to be a pretty captivating slay. What a glamorous movie. Finally a director who knows what to do with Angelina Jolie’s serpentine sumptuousness other than casting her as “evil queen.” The closest we’ll ever get to imagining what Fellini would have done with her, which is probably dedicate his entire life to her image.
Overall found this more effective than Spencer (which I also enjoyed), as I’m a sucker for this trilogy of…
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint 2023
Extremely playful and confident feature debut from Tomas Gomez Bustillo, who finds a deep humanism in Kafka-esque machinations of religious bureaucracy and spiritual frenzy. Has so many unexpected moves and surprises - devil horns, glowing dogs, lightbulbs housing spirits - but always staying ahead of being too cute, instead taking on a impish needling of the human need for fictions and projecting meaning onto which can't be explained and which is too terrifying to confront with full reason. Poetics unite the spiritual, symbols deflect the meaninglessness, the path to eternity ultimately much more personal and solitary than an Express Package to Heaven.
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