Not exactly thematically compelling, but a great vehicle for some really cool acting and aesthetics. Also, better use of a sound gimmick than A Quiet Place by far
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A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter 2024
I know this officially makes me an old crank, but a cynical, self-satisfied pastiche about being too cool for Christmas just makes my skin crawl
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The Big Short 2015
Horrible things happen because nobody cares. Millions of people lost their jobs, their homes, their lives because nobody cared. If The Big Short has a theme, and it's sometimes difficult to tell that it does, it is this. It is a hilarious, informative primal screech begging the audience to just wake up and give a fuck about the wholesale destruction of their own lives. Ironically, the movie's flashy imagery and populist zeal may have distracted it's audience from exactly that…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
A resonant and incisive action comedy unraveled at a frenetic pace. It is to the film's true credit that such a dizzying array of sci-fi conceptualism, emotional and thematic complexity, visual creativity, and narrative sleight of hand each feel a cohesive portion of a fundamentally human, if occasionally hallucinogenic story. A clever central conceit, the mediocrity of a lackluster woman grants her extraordinary flexibility, and power, in a body swapping multi-dimensional conflict, is quickly enlisted into a moving personal drama…
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