The first half of "A Scanner Darkly" is really bad. So bad that I almost stopped watching. The animation feels gimmicky, the script is bad, the plot is boring. Then all of a sudden, about an hour in, there's a complete shift in tone, and the movie becomes profoundly affecting. I have no idea how this happens, but I'm glad it did.
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Mickey 17 2025
High hopes but it didn't hit. The scifi stuff is fun and Pattinson is really great, but the religious cult dressing feels goofy, and the Ruffalo/Collette characters are written in such a heavy-handed way that by the end of the movie I was groaning every time they talked.
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Mulholland Drive 2001
Went in with my heart closed expecting to hate it because of my past experiences with Lynch, and ended up very pleasantly surprised. Typically I find his films without substance, trafficking in vibes without ideas. That's true of Mulholland Drive, too, but it's to the movie's credit — it's a totally gripping experience from start to finish, and while it is unconcerned with ideas, I think it manages to touch something outside of the realm of ideas, and in so…
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