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Your Name. 2016
After now watching through all of Makoto Shinkai’s previous work, I can safely say that Your Name is the beautiful culmination of more than a decade of careful experimentation. From the early rumblings of simultaneous (yet distant) timelines in The Place Promised in Our Early Days, to the interplay of connected fate and love in, my favourite work of his, 5 Centimetres per Second and the themes of spirituality which echo throughout his Miyazaki-lite Children Who Chase Lost Voices; Shinkai has been slowly…
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No Other Land 2024
No Other Land is a visceral cry against injustice and a testament to the power of solidarity in the face of relentless oppression as it documents the systematic, genocidal destruction of West Bank villages by Israeli forces, from a human level. No Other Land is not just a record of loss, but a powerful story of resistance.
Adra’s story-telling weaves a personal connecting thread through the devastation, spanning generations, as he reflects on a childhood marked by his father’s arrests…
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever 2022
Like a shitter 1917 with no sauce, no sense of urgency and one scene with a really terrible cgi beer can so that the logo would face the camera. So tonally muddy that the only emotion I could feel watching it was pissed off at how desperately they wanted me to care.
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