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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

    ★★★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    Bong Joon-Ho is a masterful storyteller who characteristically utilizes seemingly far-fetched notions, plots, & settings to develop themes & realities that become very real, very quickly. 
     
    The world of Mickey 17 certainly is our reality—one of the haves and have nots, of classism and struggle (*cough * cough * See: Writer/Director/Producer), but also one of resilience and resistance, of boundless human curiosity and a trust in innate goodness. The cast led by Robert Pattinson, truly the character actor of a generation,…

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Fantastic Mr. Fox

    ★★★★★

    Mr. Fox scurried so Luigi could run ✊🏽
    5/5

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    Captured an essence, with varying success in substance. 

    Sometimes the pursuit of greatness is great in and of itself.
    Well folks, that’s folk.
    3.5/5

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    So much to say, but this is it for now:

    They really don’t make movies like this anymore.
    Yes, it is long.
    But, it’s not tedious or superfluous.
    It’s a long form narrative that I think is necessary for a complex (fictional!) character driven story like this to be told without compromising realism.

    It’s a work of art that doesn’t try to hide from the fact that it is. That’s rare for a lot of movies nowadays. But, then and…

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