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No Other Land 2024
Essential viewing for everyone. Equal parts enraging, heartbreaking, and hopeful, it is impossible to watch this and not come away with both a seething hatred of the Israeli genocide machine, but also a deep sense of awe at the resilience of the Palestinian people in the face of such atrocities. Palestine will be free one day, and I pray that it is soon.
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Flow 2024
Visually dazzling, and as a cat owner I can confirm that they NAILED the cat’s mannerisms.
I think I’m just not a whimsical enough person to fully enjoy this though. It starts off relatively grounded, but as it progresses the animals become increasingly anthropomorphic (how the hell do they all know how to steer the boat?), and the story becomes increasingly fantastical. There’s a mountaintop scene that is probably the best five minutes of the film from a visual perspective,…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Very good, but deeply, deeply sad. Anchored solely by Lily Gladstone’s powerful and heartbreaking performance, it suffers every time she is not on screen. I have very mixed feelings on the ending (bumped it down half a star solely due to that), but it does feel like Scorsese’s way of acknowledging that he is a white man telling a story that isn’t his.
Edit 10/25: I caught the ending of this again tonight, while waiting for the last show to…
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Past Lives 2023
“If you leave something behind, you gain something too”
On Tuesday I will be meeting up with my childhood best friend. I don’t know exactly how many years it’s been since we’ve seen each other, but it’s been the better part of a decade for sure. We lost touch for many years but reconnected online during the early days of Covid. We had one phone call back then and have texted maybe once every six months since then, but the…
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