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A Brighter Summer Day 1991
Shot like a dream you're loathe to wake up from. Hues of deep orange and yellow so mesmerisingly warm amidst the undercurrents of state repression and escalating gang violence. The better part of my afternoon melted into the evening as I sunk deeper and deeper into the odyssey of Xiao S'ir, experiencing love and death, self-inflicted misfortunes and malign injustices alike at the dawning of a new world. I'm left blown away by how monumental and grand A Brighter Summer…
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Evil Does Not Exist 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"A little pollution won't affect the water ... One side has to take the hit."
Evil Does Not Exist is wondrously crafted. Ryusuke Hamaguchi works with painstaking precision to portray the prosaic lifestyle of a rural Japanese village that has struck a delicate balance between its relationship with nature and modernity. You can feel the crisp winter air that envelops the town, and almost taste the fresh spring water that sustains it. Slow, tracking shots follow Takumi, the local handy-man,…
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The French Connection 1971
Man Friedkin is just a master of staging. It's almost as if the establishment of his characters and central conceits are just foreplay leading into his grand sequences and it gets me every single time. Gene Hackman is a force of nature as he tries to remain inconspicous and still manages to set half of Brooklyn ablaze. Full of grit and musk, a quintessential time capsule of the 70's bursting at the seams with style.
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Let the Right One In 2008
Damn this film has all of the conventional vampire tropes I'm used to and yet everything about it feels strangely unique. Icily atmospheric, blending so many different genres and never once losing focus. An exploration of childhood innocence and isolation, while seamlessly inviting a sense of pure dread at the sanguine. Starting to think the horror stories about Swedish hospitality were exaggerated.
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Opus 2025
A rehashed and spit out cult horror where the cult is unbelievably boring and its most shocking scenes even more so. Thought it would take a little while longer until we got scripts generated entirely by Chat-GPT but I guess this is where we are now. Big fan of Ayo Edebiri, not sure how much of this is even watchable without her.
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Mickey 17 2025
By no means a bad film and I actually enjoyed it a lot at the theater, and yet it does feel like Bong’s worst sensibilities continue to persist here, at least in regards to his English language features. Pattinson’s performance is definitely one of the finer ones of his career, and his character work is eclectic alongside Naomi Ackie, her charms taking it all the way home for me. It’s in everything else where the focus just seems to have…
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