For a movie insisting this much on not taking itself seriously, it's really taking itself seriously quite a bit.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It's quite a lot to ask of an audience to engage with heavy themes of genocide, animal abuse, the ehtics of genetic engineering and coming to grips with your own weaknesses in a movie that is this relentless in its low-hanging-fruit comedy, but here we are.
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The Wolf House 2018
Utterly mesmerizing visuals that draw the eye and change perception from frame to frame. The way it contextualizes and recontextualizes spatiality (and temporality) on a moment by moment basis gives it it's most directly haunting vibes. It's not polished or pretty, but besides that actually adding to the atmosphere, it's the sequentiality of these images that makes it work and that's exactly what a movie is supposed to do. It manages to maintain an unsettling mood throughout, the way things…
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Thor: Love and Thunder 2022
Its mixture of drama and comedy just does not blend. The jokes cheapen every narrative beat, and are very rarely funny. It seems to think in-jokes, cameos and self-conciousness are of greater importance to creating a compelling movie than actual writing. There's actually some interesting ideas in here, but they're completely foiled by the fact that it's all made so ridiculous with pulling everything into silliness.
The visuals range from quite beautiful moments to very weird, not-quite-right.
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