A road movie about the most functional dysfunctional family is how I would describe Little Miss Sunshine. It's simultaneously a funny, sad and uplifting story about an awkward and underachieving (extended) family desperate for success and failing at it. But it's a movie that says it's perfectly okay to lose. Like the grandpa best puts it: "loser is someone so afraid of losing, they don't even try". There's also something even sadder lying underneath all that too, like the fact…
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Civil War 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I really, really hope this film ages more gracefully when it comes to the recent, rather dystopian events of the United States. And as a whole, it's really refreshing to see a war movie from the point of view of photojournalists. War is hell, like always. It's also hell if you're the constant backburner of whatever troop you're assigned with, having to be the one whose unarmed, and at the need of constant protection from the line of fire. It's…
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Jodorowsky's Dune 2013
The documentary about the greatest, most influential science fiction movie that never was. Alejandro Jodorowsky is basically the ultimate director that could've given Frank Herbert's magnum opus the film it needed while elevating some other topics that weren't touched upon in the novels. What could've been more influential than even Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ended up being nothing more than another sour example of a studio executive meddling. It all culminated in David Lynch taking the reigns and even…
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Ikiru 1952
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Still consider this as Kurosawa's best non-samurai movie. Ikiru is one of the most beautifully humanistic takes on life's meaning as a whole, I cannot think there are that many that can come even close to this. Much of it is thanks to Takashi Shimura's minimalistic portrayal of a man dying of cancer: acting almost entirely through his facial expressions, Shimura goes through a wide range of emotions from indifference to bittersweet sadness and even humility. I think only…
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