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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 08 Mar 2025

  Initial thoughts here. Holds up even better the second time.

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  Presence 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  A spirit roams around an old house. A family in disarray is moving in. The mother is assertive. The father is a pushover. The son is a douche. And the daughter just tragically lost a friend and now believes she's experiencing a presence in their new home.

  The mechanics of Soderbergh's Presence lean away from traditional ghost story tropes: expository dialogue detailing the history of the home or the grounds, jump scares, ancient texts, etc. It offers fragments of this…

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  The Fabelmans 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Dec 2022

  While the camera brilliantly acts as a dissociating device for Sam, allowing him to break away from reality and only see what may enthrall the audience through the camera—no matter how personal or tragic that maybe—the visual texture of The Fabelmans struck an immediate chord with me as well. Bright lights and whites burst ostensibly out of the screen, pushing beams onto our passionate subjects and their vivid surroundings, enveloping everything under a porcelain-like veil; ready to crack at any…

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  No Other Land 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  Potent and devastating, No Other Land frustrates with ease. Filmmakers Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham and everyone else involved peel back a practically translucent veil into the totalitarianistic Israeli government and their unjust displacement of Palestinian natives, in particular those of Masafer Yatta and other surrounding villages.

  The directing crew splice together the story of Masafer Yatta local and activist Basel has he begins to document the Israeli military destroying homes and buildings in their village. He gains traction through social…

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