Shakespearean in its ability to switch effortlessly between bleak soliloquies and gleeful levity, Seventh Seal defines itself by the sudden BOOM! of death. While it does much to ruminate about our demise, the movie separates itself in its macabre and focused depiction of Medieval thinking, forcing the viewer to understand the manner in which these Middle Age folk walk hand in hand with death, necrosis showing it's unforgiving face in the background of every set piece of life.
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Amadeus 1984
All pomp all the time. Bitterness and admiration flow as one in the bath of music. Ostentatious wealth gives way to the simmering desire for depravity, for which Mozart's grandiosity and risque librettos serve as a conduit.
Salieri is the ultimate foil, simultaneously pushing Mozart down as his presence rises in his own esteem; obsession begets tragedy.
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Challengers 2024
Much better than I was expecting off of premise alone, Challengers is a two hour experience filled with tension, sexuality, and yearning, or lack thereof. All 3 leads kill it in playing themselves across two decades of success and failure. Guadagnino exhausts every effort in showing all possible angles of a tennis court, from drifting serial drone shots to going underground and depicting the brutal match from above, the blue clay material of the court serving as the sky, to…
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
Simply incredible. Inventive animation that goes by a mile a minute in the most exciting way possible. Of course, it ain't perfect, with the other spider-people feeling a bit half-baked with their somewhat limited screen time, but if you come out of this without thinking that Miles Morales and Peter Parker don't absolutely carry this frantic plot from its most explosive highs to its surprisingly tearful lows, I don't know what movie you watched. More than anything else, this movie absolutely adores everything kitschy, cheesy, incoherent, and beautiful about Spider-Man, which makes it an absolute joy to watch.
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