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  • About Time
  • Your Name.
  • The Incredibles
  • Call Me by Your Name

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  • A Lien

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  • Three Colours: Red

    Three Colours: Red

    ★★★★★

    "Stay a minute."
        "Why?"
    "The light is beautiful.”

    Overflowing with meaning and transformative in a way that few movies are, Red doesn't just surpass Blue and White—it elevates the whole trilogy. The intertwined connection on display here, of character turned reminiscer turned director turned dreamer, makes the severance of that connection in Blue all the more grief-inducing, the optimistic rediscovery of Valentine a mirror to Julie's pessimistic loss. Karin's carefree autotelic personalized weather reports in turn make Karol's blind pursuit…

  • Ratatouille

    Ratatouille

    ★★★★★

    "In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau’s famous motto, “Anyone can cook.” But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere."

    One of the greatest movies about artists and their art, told from the most humble of origins. Holding the dubious honor of being the one Pixar movie that has made me play a Wii video game adaptation to completion, it never fails to rock me to my core (Giacchino, take a bow). What better place to dream than in Paris.

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  • Instruments of a Beating Heart

    Instruments of a Beating Heart

    “Let everyone hear your beautiful sound.”

    An adorable ode to small moments, and further ammo in my personal argument that the best documentary shorts are found in the edit of full documentaries (in this case Yamazaki's own The Making of a Japanese). Teared up at the boy crying for his friend not getting the part.

  • A Lien

    A Lien

    “Mama, can you braid my hair?”

    Great performances, even if the handheld shots and script didn't highlight them. Loved the portrayal of bureaucracy as the enemy of urgency.

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★½

    Is there a better description of a cube than its construction?

    Great score, great cinematography, Adrian Brody crushes it, the opening sequence and both credits are entrancing -- and yet it falls flat. The pacing isn't the problem (in fact my main feeling when the house lights came on was "that felt rushed") but the intermission partially is, delineating the movie into two. The first half relies on strong visual language and anticipation, the setting up of giant concrete dominoes…

  • Blitz

    Blitz

    ★★½

    Disappointing, doubly so because I've loved both Steve McQueen and Saoirse. She feels miscast and he feels hidden, the vision of the movie reduced from the idiosyncrasies of his long takes and incisive angles into a movie anyone could have made, combined with unsubtle messaging of something like Green Book (and what was Harris Dickinson even doing in this movie, did he have sequences left on the editing room floor??).

    There's one scene where McQueen peeks out, with the bombing…