The directing, perfectly pitched and sharply timed, is remarkable for a directorial debut. Looking forward to more from Kendrick, hopefully stuff that doesn’t involve watching women get brutalized and slaughtered.
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American Fiction 2023
Love the playful enactments of imagined scenes and the canvas of humanity that is Lorraine, and I’d watch each of these as standalone movies. But the good stuff is held back by a kinda crappy love story and a trite, if totally accurate, criticism of Hollywood blackness. The Issa Rae character was weirdly inconsistent, and the Sterling K. Brown stuff felt very tacked on. I kinda don’t get why this needed to have like seven distinct subplots running seemingly in parallel to one another. Still more run — and less self-important — than most of the other big movies of its year, though.
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Tigertail 2020
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Start with the dialogue. Any native speaker can tell the Mandarin is stiff and stilted. It is immediately apparent that the film's poseur-auteur Alan Yang doesn't know a lick of Chinese. If your entire screenplay…
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Yumeji 1991
How can something so abstruse be so viscerally enjoyable? I did not (and will never) understand YUMEJI, but I could not hide the delight on my face as I watched this bizarre experience unfold. This movie epitomizes the phrase "every frame a painting"; it is the most gorgeous film I have ever seen. The set dressing, the costumes, the framing... I entered with a crowd of 60, few likely expecting their Saturday afternoon movie fix to be so uncompromisingly arthouse.…
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