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Rule #2: An artful failure will always get more respect than a safe commercial success.
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Black Bag 2025
With the high praise and the “movies for grownups” of the word of mouth (and also Soderbergh’s other offering from this year Presence, which I thought was great), I was ready for some good food.
However, this was very stupid! The dialogue may have had a pseudo-intellectual element that fooled people into thinking it was smarter than it was? If not for the truly stacked cast giving everything an undeserved gravitas — and also an underlying horniness at all times…
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Mickey 17 2025
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Maybe I should have read the book?
At the very least I would have been prepared for all of the visceral insect content. Or perhaps understood why this was so broad: Toni Collette and the sauces? Mark Ruffalo's entire performance?
The film does a good job of pointing at all of the horrors of late-stage capitalism and fascist ideology both real today and probably coming in the future, but once again this is done so broadly it gets (pun) lost…
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The Girl with the Needle 2024
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One of my least favorite modern novels, certainly the one I'm loudest about hating, is Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life. While the sentences are well constructed, the plot is little more than melodramatic trauma porn lacking in any actual insight into the human condition beyond: "how many indignities can we suffer?"
It was when during The Girl with the Needle, Karolina gave birth on a pile of turnips (this after being thrown out by her rich lover's mother, attempting an…
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Companion 2025
Not that I don’t think this raises interesting questions on the future of AI and obvious humanity’s inability to be responsible with its use as it becomes more advanced, but the packaging left much to be desired.
A Black Mirror episode with a glibness and self-satisfied slick tone the actual series fortunately lacks. The big issue here is that we’re dealing with issues of sexual assault as our robots don’t know they are robots — which is completely unnecessary except as…
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