I only found out about this movie from reading a case study on it in a film studies textbook intended for teen-aged freshmen, and it only piqued my interest after coincidentally finding it on the Criterion Channel very shortly after. So in an attempt to satisfy kismet and to justify my yearly subscription, I watched it, and I'm glad I did. This is a fascinating character study of a man wracked with guilt and paranoia, and it explores in great…
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Mickey 17 2025
Some of the absurd elements were great, I would have liked to see more of that (e.g. the dinner scene). But the movie also switches to character-drama mode at times, which I don't feel is particularly earned. It should pick a lane. Scenes that were meant to be intense and heartfelt rang hollow for me because the characters were not properly built up beforehand.
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Dìdi (弟弟) 2024
Was that an anachronistic deez nuts joke, or was I just not hanging around the cool kids back in '08?
Well, I already know the answer to that. "Didi" may not *exactly* map out my preteen years growing up as an Asian American in that era - I was a straight-laced kid for the most part - but it is by far the most painfully accurate experience I have seen depicting my adolescence. Other media of its ilk, like Fresh…
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