The spaciousness in this film, even in a dense city with lives hemmed in by expectations, is a generous gift to women’s interiority. So there’s space - found or given, existing or extended - to hurt and be forgiven, to work and cook, to couple and begin or just be. Looking at the three central women made me think that sometimes the only way through is around it. You live day by day and that’s a life, not in a…
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Anora 2024
I wanted the world for Ani…the world outside of what she could access through men. But there’s only so much her bravado can do to wound the slinky power structures that seem to stretch briefly to entice her with possibilities, only to eventually collapse back on itself.
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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
How do we catalogue love, how do we measure someone’s love? In the movie, the grandson badgers his grandma about which of her children she favors the most and she can’t quite declare which, but her closest answer is that in the time of her terminal illness, she most wants to stay with her daughter. Quality time. We can try to measure love by what we receive from another, the time spent together or frequency of meetings, the things one…
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Monkey Man 2024
Go watch Monkey Man. I was telling a close one that lately, all I want to watch are movies that move me, I want emotionally stirring experiences that make me recall the complexities of living and loving. This movie was moving. It has all the well-loved characteristics of the action genre - a solid revenge motif that actually serves up revenge in gory detail, dynamic choreography of fight scenes built upon integration of bodies & setting, the well-worn but inexhaustible triumph…
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