Maisy Stella was great! She really drew me in and having never seen her I believed completely that she was a third generation cranberry farmer queer teen. The film actually had subtle progress to add to liberal progressive movements, like the ironic shame that those who thought of themselves as lesbians can have when they have a heterosexual romantic interest and how many racial generalizations about all cis white men are…hurtful and umm racist. My biases bring these commentaries to the surface but I don’t think that I imagined them.it was fun, enjoyable, female-led, and original.
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Poor Things 2023
Emma Stone delivers one of the best and most unique acting experiences ever captured on film. As a father of three kids she imitated a baby at times better than any adult I’ve ever seen. Mark Ruffalo was good, his character was funny, his timing was precise but I still noticed him as Mark Ruffalo several times. I didn’t lose myself with the character in the way Stone allowed me to with her performance. Ramy Youssef’s eyes told many stories…
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American Fiction 2023
The movie is an answer to the main character’s criticism of the African American experience being oversimplified by white consumers of media. That is a beautiful hidden trick of the film. He keeps saying there is more to the black experience in America as he shows you many examples. The film was so busy doing that that it made the ending purposefully unimportant, which I respect but an unsatisfying ending still feels like an unresolved piece of music. I respect…
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Self Reliance 2023
I have a soft spot for writer-director-starring-in. It just seems like one of the hardest things a person could do. Fool’s Paradise and Self-Reliance are Charlie Day’s and Jake Johnson’s efforts in this realm and I’ve watched them both recently. No one has ever praised the acting range of Jake Johnson (and they wouldn’t after this movie) but that’s not why he is lovable. His natural personality seems close to Nick Miller, which is the Platonic ideal of lovable. He…
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