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The Fog of War 2003
Both its limitations and its ultimate strength lie in the fact that this is 108 mins of McNamara, uninterrupted and—practically—unchecked. Seldom does Morris interject, except to overlay McNamara’s excuses, deflections, and understatements with subtly contradictory imagery. That ostensibly hands-off approach brought an unabashed, almost endearing Texan authenticity in The Thin Blue Line. Here, it allows a Washington bureaucrat with a soul as damned as any to perform a careful routine of legacy reconstruction, coated with a quasi-honesty.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
The aptly named Everything Everywhere All At Once throws everything at the wall to see if it’ll stick. The byproduct of it all is a deformed jumble of ideas that are excruciating to watch. For every concept that hits the bullseye, there are far too many that don’t even graze the dartboard.
Everything Everywhere All At Once begins modestly, introducing you to the life of middle-aged Chinese immigrant Evelyn Wang. The film paints the picture of the tension arising in her life. Whether…
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Don't Look Up 2021
Director and writer Adam McKay’s latest venture Don’t Look Up is as disastrous as the events of the plot. A socio-political satire about two lower-echelon astronomers at Michigan State University who discover an extinctive meteor with a near 100% chance of hitting Earth. With a little over 6 months until the comet strikes, the astronomers Professor Dr. Mindy and his post-grad student Kate Dibiasky go on a media run to warn the world. What they get is an apathetic response…
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