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  • Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

    ★★★★

  • The Young Offenders

    ★★★

  • The Matrix

    ★★★★

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  • Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

    Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

    ★★★★

    santa clause x i am legend x the office christmas episode x midsommar

    wowza this one

    a coming of age story
    and a santa origin story

    in that order

    truly a time warp that could happen only in Finland--land of nights so long that you don't know day from night

    a beautiful portrait of rural life in Finland. an immense community in the snow.

    goes from 10 to 300 in the last twenty minutes or so



    guess what's in the box on the poster


    basically a successor to jaws

  • The Young Offenders

    The Young Offenders

    ★★★

    A spiritual cadenza to The Matrix. They come of age. They seek the white. It takes them, the allure of cocaine riches, on a journey through a region of Ireland. The expression "fair play" is heard once or twice. The scenery is idyllic.

    At one point they cross their urine streams in a touching homage to the Ghostbusters. Indeed the buds of the men they will become by the end of this story loom as specters throughout--you feel it on…

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  • The Matrix

    The Matrix

    ★★★★

    Not just a useful math space, a space for exploring a new world. A world parallel perhaps to our own (if infinite universes exist, do we have superpowers in some of them?) but linked beautifully to reality with KR's convincing performance in this delightful coming-of-age/finding-yourself film. The film left the world with an entire new theoretical paradigm of reality, and we are thankful enough just for that. But it steps beyond that into genuine entertainment. A thrill. An inspiration.