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The Zone of Interest 2023
The Zone of Interest becomes most sharply relevant precisely at the moment audiences think it is about someone else, sometime else. As director Jonathan Glazer said in his Oscar acceptance speech, The Zone of Interest was made “to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say ‘look what they did then,’ rather ‘look what we do now.’” The operative word here is look, which the characters in The Zone of Interest consistently avoid doing. Instead of traumatizing audiences…
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Asteroid City 2023
By couching the main plot in the form of a play, it’s immediately understood that every real world actor is playing a fictional actor who is playing the on-screen character, and in the case of Scarlett Johansson, the on-screen character is also an actor. While Asteroid City still has all the charm and whimsy that fans will expect from a Wes Anderson film, it is more of a commentary on the philosophy of Plato and the nature of the self.…
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Poor Things 2023
It’s tempting to let Poor Things simply entertain you on a sensual, whimsical level — it’s certainly visually arresting enough, and the acting is certainly compelling enough. But there’s still some part of the analytically-inclined brain that must cock its head like a dog when, for instance, a character is called “God” and he also happens to give life to a character. Or, for instance, the nostalgic future with steampunk technology and costumes with petticoats and cummerbunds might be symbols…
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The Holdovers 2023
The Holdovers knows that it is recognizable. This cultural resonance is embraced by the film’s aesthetic choices, adopting vintage-replica studio logos and bumper cards, as well as a seventies-era film grain and tape saturation audio processing. You’ve probably seen the characters, themes, plot and setting in some other film — a crotchety school teacher, a grieving mother and a discarded teen that are stuck with each other. The whole setup lets you imagine what’s going to happen: I bet by…
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