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The Menu 2022
Ok, so I loved that I watched it and immediately related to the snobs… that was well done, to so smartly remind viewers that we’re no better than them, and therein lies the tension of “which side are you on?”
But overall, the social commentary was interesting but not pushed very deep, and not handled as engagingly as Parasite or Squid Games.
Still fun to watch — solid airplane movie — thanks to the craziness of what goes down, even though it was pretty predictable.
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Oppenheimer 2023
Really beautiful in 30mm. Stunning visuals & audio (could have been a bit quieter though). Great complex character development. Epic story. Nice balanced & smart commentary on the many sides of science and politics.
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Drive My Car 2021
The magic of Murakami and of this 3hr movie adaptation of his story is that you are transported into a clear and powerful mood made of moments, and swallowed whole to float through the movie from minute 1 to minute 179.
Somehow I could have watched this for just the first 1hr or for 6hrs more and still felt the same sustained immersion. Yes I zoned out and in, but that’s the power of this isn’t it? — it gives…
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Encanto 2021
It was solid but not one of my favorite Disney-Pixar animations by any means.
I didn’t think they did enough work to flesh out the characters and make them really complex (it was like 2 layers complex… what I’d expect out of a high school AP Lit essay, not a professional Disney film)… there were too many players and not enough investment in backstories or current contextual bits to round out details. The relationships between the characters were not as emotionally…
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