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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016
As a vehicle for set pieces, Rogue One works and even stuns by its climactic battle at Scarif. As a movie about characters interacting in those set pieces, though, there's really not much here, something the movie even seems to admit when it leans on a cameo to bring Rogue One to an attempted emotional finish. It's a shame, too, because on paper, Rogue One might have one of the single greatest cast lists in modern blockbuster cinema. (I don't…
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The Firemen's Ball 1967
On the one hand, The Firemen's Ball is a plain and cynical satire about inept administrators and their best laid plans published at the twilight of both the Czechoslovak New Wave and the doomed liberalizing of Soviet era Czechoslovakia.
On the other hand, it's also a comedy of errors starring so many dumbasses with best laid plans that are also dumb. A cornucopia of idiots. The Death of Stalin blueprint with even more dipshits. Outright male buffoonery. It's beautiful.
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Last Hurrah for Chivalry 1979
John Woo's hallmarks are all here. Heroes brave a changing world with brotherhood and bloodshed. Chivalry finds poetry in violence and sacrifice. There's a handful of sword fights and brawls, including an early duel with a wannabe master, that I think are some of the coolest I've ever seen filmed.
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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero 2022
It's crazy just how much color and creativity Toriyama could pack into a Dragon Ball story even when it's this aggressively self-referential. The new animation style doesn't always mesh, but I'll forgive anything this sincerely vibrant and playful. When it works, it works.
What a singular talent. What a loss.
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