I haven’t seen a Spider-Man movie since the first one from the early 2000s with Toby McGuire and the Nickleback theme song. This was very different than the “guy gets bit by spider and becomes vigilante superhero ” tale of yore, and frankly I didn’t really understand what was going on for most of it: there seemed to be 7 different villains, three different Spider-Mans, and it was all controlled by a wizard god-figure that could resolve all plot devices by pushing a button on a magic box. Tom Holland has a boyish charm that makes sense to me, but I’m afraid nothing else did
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Compartment No. 6 2021
The comparison with before sunrise is, thankfully, inaccurate. This movie indulges in ambiguity and quiet misunderstandings. It’s not really a love story per se as much as it is about two very different people sharing an unlikely affinity in a difficult and alienating world. It’s beautiful and tender and funny in a restrained and naturalistic way. Favorite movie of the year.
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Jackass Forever 2022
Because this is a nostalgia movie, I’m viewing it exclusively through a nostalgic lens, and I’m afraid the new blood doesn’t quite have the same alchemy of adolescent glee and drunken charm that the original cast did. There really was something special about that original core group of guys, when the stunts truly seemed like organic offshoots of their actual drunken antics (rather than enormous, evil knievel-style pyrotechnic’d productions) and the grainy video came from a handheld camcorder that shook…
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Arctic 2018
Think of this kind of movie as a survival procedural: the vicarious enjoyment of watching how someone in these circumstances goes about feeding themselves, protecting themselves from predators, navigating to safety etc. Slow and methodical problem solving is the name of the game here and this film does it fairly well.
Really didn’t need the overwrought, triumphal score; the muted tension inherent in a movie like this came naturally and was more than sufficient. Also why does every bear scene…
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