This is the most confusing, pathologically mediocre movie I have ever watched. I'd like to believe Kubrick made 'The Shining' after this passion project as an apology to his fans who were expecting this to be a great film. It is Kubrick, and perhaps that's the redeeming quality of the work - anything Kubrick makes should pique a person's interest in an intellectual sense. But the themes herein possess no subtlety, essentially being handed directly to the viewer on an…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
Narrative: 1
Dialogue: 2
Visuals: 4
Action: 1Rating: 1.5 out of 5
This movie only runs out of s**t writing because it runs out of screentime. I don't know how a film like this manages to disappoint me, since 'part ones' are my thing. They're pretty easy to write and generally enjoy a lot more quality dialogue, character development, and narrative approach to the storytelling. Instead of describing the bad things about the movie, since there's so many, I'll…
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Soul 2020
In the current film environment, it's a masterpiece, which is to say that "Soul" is a truly exceptional movie with serious, legitimate depth. In terms of writing, it settles one of the major problems with children's movies today - that many of them are sickeningly generic and intellectually poisonous, teaching kids lessons like 'be yourself' without exploring the normative problem of how to achieve such ideals in our imperfect world.
"Soul" does not fall into this trap because it is…
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