Hello, Mr. Bond. You must be feeling well, dressed up in that tuxedo, sipping your martini, with that beautiful woman on your arm. The life of a British spy, so glamourous! And you're so professional at your job, can you ever be stopped? Well, it may surprise you to know that I have the ultimate weapon. I can prove you do not exist. I have here a film, adapted from a novel by John le Carré who, you see, actually…
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The Center of the World 2001
Wayne Wang is in the middle of his Hollywood phase as the '90's transition to the aughts, coming off of Anywhere But Here in 1999, and decides to make an erotic drama (he's been quoted as referencing Last Tango in Paris). When he got this out of his system, he went on to make Maid in Manhattan. What a career.
The Center of the World is interesting in that it has a pretty simple (and rather typical of smaller films…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
This movie references a lot of other movies, but if I were to distill it I would describe it as a cross between Christopher Nolan and Stephen Chow. It uses the Nolan formula, where the insane sci-fi concept that requires pages of exposition in order to be explained is both the point and not the point. A lot of the fun is in figuring out what's going on and watching it happen, but really it's a wrapping for whatever the…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
The trick of this movie isn't that it merely shows a family acting normal even as they have the knowledge of their complicity in mass murder. It's how it shows that they are simply, completely, and utterly human. If we follow the surface trajectory of the domestic life we're shown, but we remove the context of the concentration camp, we might find ourselves with a rooting interest from seeing how the family is attached to this life they've built, and…
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