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The Rock 1996
An astounding, psychologically rich fantasia of mid-90s American masculinity. Ed Harris is presented as a pillar of blinkered honor and nobility, even though he's advocating for payouts to black ops Marines, unsympathetic and villainous psychopaths based on who those kinds of guys tend to be in the real world. Nicholas Cage's role in the story is as an over-his-head everyman forced to rise to the occasion, even though he already has an Ian Malcolm-esque cool scientist life, complete with an…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
It seems impossible to watch this movie and not read it as an allegory for living as a person of economic privilege in the modern world; how a life of ease and comfort can seem earned, and beautiful, while the cost of that ease and comfort lies hidden, out of view (but not, crucially, out of earshot), warping lives and psyches. In an Oscar season dominated by bombastic, maximalist epics such as Oppenheimer and Poor Things, this film stands out by standing back. Restrained, controlled, cold, but undeniably affecting.
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The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
I sometimes wonder if our favorite movies remain our favorites because they act as beacons of our past moments; do I love this movie because of its qualities, or do I just love that it can remind me of who I used to be?
And then egotism dissolves in the light of the work, which is just as rich and as layered and meaningful as it ever was. "I've had a rough year, dad."
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