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The Last Showgirl 2024
It made me cry. It's got flaws but god, this is exactly the way I want the camera to treat the women in front of it. The voicemail monologue at the end was beautiful. Jamie Lee Curtis, Pam herself and Bautista do great work here. Their characters are caricatures at times but the warmth is there. There are pacing issues and the stylised camera choices are sometimes distracting. Otherwise this is a rewarding movie that deserves some attention.
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Flow 2024
I love movies like this. Mood paintings with an interest in the beautiful details that come into focus with stillness. I love that animation has embraced a shift towards impressionism against realism; it's the shift I want to see happen with visual effects in live action filmmaking.
Cute animals with some depth, just a delight.
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
What if a movie commentary could be an essay could be a movie itself?
A backwards step in the development of analogic storytelling, for how the over-thought pondering has been prioritised over connecting an emotional through-line from the characters to the screen. There is no perspective to follow in this; Reeves' Neo/Anderson feels distant and foggy, Trinity is interesting but largely absent and the rest of the cast feel utterly two-dimensional, there to deliver quips and call backs. There is…
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The Green Knight 2021
Spectacular adaptation. Dev carries a movie studded with rich performances like it's nothing. Love to see Joel Edgerton having a great time. Sean Harris gets to play a three dimensional character for once, Alicia Vikander steals the show with that monologue... Wonderful acting in a spell binding film, rich with fantastical imagry supporting thematically solid storytelling. Questions the nature of heroism through an exploration of mortality, death's role in nature, the imagined self and the drive for purpose. Loved it.
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