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Lilo & Stitch 2002
The first two acts of this are genuinely five stars — there’s genius writing and acting and animation colored by a really loving exploration of loneliness and loss that all amount to something that stands out not only among children’s films but among films generally. Virtually all the dialogue between Lilo and Nani is five star quality beautiful work.
But it ends abruptly with an action sequence that has none of the maturity and patience of what precedes it and…
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Megalopolis 2024
Would’ve been five stars if the whole film was just Laurence Fishburn explaining how we use the word time as statues dramatically melt in a Gotham-esque city (lowkey loved this sequence tho).
Truly I think the only way I can understand this movie is if I tell myself Coppola either (A) has real issues with his daughter’s husband and has lost his mind or (B) was forcibly coerced into directing a screenplay written by an actual 13 year old.
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
Reallllllly hate to be that guy, but I think you guys ~just don’t get~ Joker 2.
(100% convinced the ending sets up Ledger’s Joker and this saved the film and its message for me. Really points at all the dipwads who liked the first one and says ‘You thought THIS was THE JOKER? Nah man, this is just a mentally ill victim of the criminal justice system, you goons.’)
(No masterpiece, but no negatives — a thoroughly deliberate, purposeful, controlled…
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