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Mickey 17 2025
MICKEY 17 is an interesting attempt, but at what exactly?
On the one hand, it’s a biting political satire, critical of babbling, attention-craving tyrants (esteemed Trump-hater Mark Ruffalo certainly added to this undercurrent).
It’s also a bizarre sci-fi space movie, but only by circumstance — the characters speak and conduct themselves pretty familiarly.
It’s thirdly a lighter-hearted take on Cameron’s Avatar with a couple absurdist modifications: a sometimes-adorable, other-times-ominous alien species faces destruction at the hands of the greedy humans, and…
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Better Man 2024
While amateur and established critics alike have ridiculed Robbie Williams' decision to depict himself as a CGI-generated ape as both random and/or an attention grab (and in many ways, this is all true) my takeaway was that the choice functions on the level of pure metaphor. In other words, if you were to watch this film in school, the very first question on the discussion sheet would be, "why is fuck was he an ape?" (language subject to your professor's…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
As the title A Complete Unknown may suggest, the venerable Bob Dylan is shrouded in mystery when he stumbles out the trunk of a car and into the wintry streets of Greenwich Village. We know little about his family, his background, his motivations, and we sure as shit don’t know his political leanings. It seems as though he lands in the bowels of New York by some divine providence probably only Dylan could truly understand.
All that is certain is Dylan’s transcendent talent,…
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