A more refreshing take on the debate over individualism, anchored by a performance only Robert Pattinson could deliver. Its biggest flaw was its tendency to wander, could have really used a 20 or 30 minute reduction.
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Napoleon 2023
This movie is a poor attempt at a historical epic, but an incredible as a greek tragedy. The image of Napoleon marching into a dead city to sit atop a lonely throne after brutally divorcing Josephine highlights the narcissism that blinds him. He yells out to his men “We are winning” as they are clearly losing, he mumbles “this was not a defeat” to himself after watching his army be destroyed. He professes his love to Josephine only to destroy…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Most likely the greatest film imagined singed the turn of the century. A plot so engaging that you can’t help but keep up, but so compellingly complex that you cannot truly explain it. No other film so empathetically acknowledges nihilistic motivations while also managing to overcome its implications in a manner so incredible it would make Camus himself weep.
To feel nothing is to feel, which is something.
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