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After Yang 2021
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A quiet and tight film that was funny to watch the same week that I watched Babylon. An interesting case-study in how maximalism and minimalism can both work when applied in the right way.
This film just feels super whole--like every stylistic choice was carefully thought out. My problem with Kogonada's earlier film, Columbus, was the visuals felt sort of separated from the themes of the film. Here, they do so well to contemplate the themes explored. In setting up…
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Babylon 2022
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I love when directors swing for the fences, and Chazelle definitely did that here, but it's hard to tell if it was a home run or a miss. With the pacing of Magnolia, tropes of A Star is Born/Almost Famous/Boogie Nights, and the same cast Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, this movie sets a high bar to jump over.
What worked: Insane pacing and volume of detail at nearly all points of the movie. For a film about the…
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I ♥ Huckabees 2004
Okay it's probably more like 4.5, but is just so spot-on for my taste. I'm not sure this movie gets enough credit for how well-crafted it is in terms of how each character represents different schools of philosophy (nihilism/absurdism/existentialism/and further). The movie has me laughing then crying then holding my breath throughout the whole thing. I'm a stereotype, but I love this era of early 2000s sad boy, surrealist, anxiety-inducing, Jon Brion-tooting, laughing and crying, dialogue-heavy movies.
how can I not be myself? how can I not be myself? how can I not be myself?
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Glass Onion 2022
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A colorful, fun popcorn-movie, and not much else.
The mystery itself was not so intriguing, and the second-half of the movie is more about Craig and Monáe's little charade than solving the original mystery at hand. I think once I adjusted my understanding that the movie was about that (and not the mystery presented), I started to find it more interesting. The breadcrumb trail of Norton's idiocy was fun to retrace, and I found I only noticed one or two…
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