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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005
We didn’t know how good we had it.
Camille Paglia was way ahead of her time when she declared—at what level of irony I don’t know, but I suspect it was the same level I’ve now come to—that this was the greatest artwork of the 21st Century. I’ve been sympathetic to the Prequel Revisionism Movement for a while now, but something had held me back from revisiting Star Wars as an adult. Some part of me must have feared that…
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Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- 2025
I have no context for this. Don’t even know why I went. Sometimes it’s okay to walk out of a movie. I gotta learn that.
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MaXXXine 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This lost me at the reveal, got me back for a split second, and then lost me for good. A bathetic ending to a trilogy I had been, uncharacteristically, enjoying until now. I think these movies worked best when they leaned into and played out in conversation with their respective genres. But the pulse of intention in X and Pearl sputters out here into a mishmash of signs and signals—the symbols have devolved into references.
To take one example, the…
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