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A Complete Unknown 2024
First time im leaving a movie unstarred because I watched this whole thing half asleep, but it’s enough to get It Ain’t Me stuck in my head, and also watching this with my friend who saw Dylan live 17 times is an occasion worth commemorating methinks. Thank you Ronald for what is essentially a two-hour Spotify playlist recommendation
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
“Come back and make up a goodbye. Let’s pretend we had one.”
Love is dead. Love is eternal. Love is sand slipping through your hands. Love is holding on to thorns wondering why you still haven’t let go.
Stands with Spike Jonze’s Her as one of the all time post-modern American sci-fi romance greats.
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Oppenheimer 2023
A thunderous epic on an warpath, blazing everything in its wake. This is Nolan’s The Social Network, a cross-examination of a tortured man between courtroom drama and scientific odyssey, while wielding tension like a scorching blade. The contrast between close-ups filling the IMAX screen and explosions dwarfed by the camera beholding the vast desert. The score (Görranson’s best work yet) oscillating between haunted strings and deafening synths. The crisp, fervent editing that only lingers on looks of regret and despair, lamenting this hell on earth. The climactic detonation that made me physically unease from anticipation and actual fear.
A great feat of cinema.
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Barbie 2023
“You’re not your car, or your mink. You’re not even beach.”
Metamodern absurdist comedies have never looked this good. Its core belief of how we can reconcile feminity and womanhood is presented with such unflinching faith it feels like Greta herself reaching through the screen and shaking all our shoulders. The dry humor with the occasional 4th-wall-breaking pop is delightful if uneven at times, but I truly cannot stop my grin throughout its runtime. Margot and Ryan are pure dynamite.
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