the only thing my top 4 have in common is that they’ve all made me cry
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 2021
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what a wonderful thing. overstays its welcome a tad, but it somehow feels like a real documentary that was easy to make because the subject is so charming. a lot of poetic dialogue about loneliness, community, and even death, which i really appreciated and connected with. love you, Marcello
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Nope 2022
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Peele’s ability to create infinitely memorable visuals and feelings is pretty much unmatched in contemporary cinema. How can symbolism evoke darkness, fear, and even a sense of trauma with such ease?
Interestingly, the film asks a similar question: how can we turn real darkness, fear, and even trauma into entertainment with such ease? I’d like to say it explores this theme thoroughly, but it simultaneously asks so many other questions that I can’t say I find it generally cohesive. ‘Man…Translated from by
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Tenet 2020
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It’s impressive how much better this works seeing it a second time. Much easier watch when you’re not trying to put the pieces together, but rather filling in the gaps, because of which I was able to catch a lot more information without effort, making me appreciate the plot considerably more. Because of that, its thematic value stood out more clearly, and it’s an actually pretty compelling examination of humanity and its relationship with time (classic Nolan stuff).
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October (Ten Days that Shook the World) 1927
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As impressive as Eisenstein’s revolutionary editing techniques are, his intellectuality doesn’t always come through in October due to how monotonously paced and repetitive it is. There are exhilarating moments here where the dialectic relationships between shots succeed in forming actually complex deconstructions of concepts like religion and patriotism, but those that stood out are too few and far between for me to feel invested in its rejection of continuity. I recognize the auteur’s impact on the theory of montage, being…
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