Soderbergh is one of the masters of the art, no way around it. He’s meticulous yet scarce— every move is intentional, not a single one gratuitous, and yet his films are never rushed or breathless, like a recipe hand-measured and cooked with precise time and care. Few directors/editors understand the power that the interplay between a tight master, a medium, and a closeup can have, and even fewer manage to make multiple scenes in a film a masterclass display of…
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Mickey 17 2025
This is missing both the meticulously constructed momentum of something like Parasite and the melancholic rot at the heart of something like Memories of Murder, which are incidentally my favorite parts of any Bong film; here, Bong’s much more focused on making a broad, wacky satire here than any good, nuanced political commentary or any sort of human element. He’s lucky, then, that he’s found such a fully committed performer in Pattinson, who manages to construct two fully distinct characters…
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A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965
A young, depressed Charlie Brown comes to terms with religion and the widespread commercialization of Christmas, before communism eventually prevails as the one true ideal. Masterpiece.
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