It’s a rare film that makes me cry a little bit from stress and delight at different moments.
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Hard Truths 2024
An excellent look into the mind and life of someone seemingly incapable of accepting life’s tests and traumas- forever lost in anger at the inevitability of sorrow. As always, Mike Leigh’s presentation of lost souls is unfailingly kind— we never feel someone is utterly hopeless and Pansy has suffered genuine mistreatment. But it also should not be mistaken as a necessarily hopeful film. I respect Leigh’s willingness to let us absorb those unsettling moments toward the end without fanfare. He always ends on the right shot, just at the right moment. Another phenomenal work.
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The Holdovers 2023
Watching Paul Giamatti drunkenly roll around on a rickety twin mattress, groaning and farting… poetic cinema.
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Megalopolis 2024
Can’t help comparing the experience of watching this film to when I saw “Synecdoche, New York”— both grasping for profundity to the point where I just wasn’t able to buy it. Unlike “Synecdoche” though, I attribute this experience less to personal taste than to the fact Megalopolis is an insane, clumsy mess.
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