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Mickey 17 2025
What Avatar might have looked like with a brain and a soul.
Bong has this really otherworldly and completely singular ability to take the most cartoonishly heavy-handed allegories imaginable and pack them with so much honesty and character and complexity and dynamism that we have no choice but to accept the disturbing relevance of the more reductive elements at play. He balances simplicity with subtlety — at least in the sense that he throws each out the window in equal…
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Flow 2024
A gorgeous, resonant ode to the majesty of the natural world and the unexpected ubiquity of humanity. Animal stories usually succumb to the temptation to make their characters into disguised humans, but Flow wisely avoids that tired route — its animals look and act like animals (at least 95% of the time), its cataclysms unfold like cataclysms, its mysteries are mysteries, and its stakes feel undeniably high. As it all unfolds like a conflation of Planet Earth and The Odyssey, but…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
The most focused and disturbing film of 2023, The Zone of Interest paints the Holocaust in negative space, using a vapid family drama to render the atrocity as a monolithic void — a silhouette cut into banal Humanism with such stark clarity that it shocks. Like pixel-perfect censorship of some obscenity that only emphasizes rather than obscuring.
It might not say anything about the Holocaust that hasn’t been said thousands of times — that the Nazis weren’t all cartoonish sadists or…
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