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Flow 2024
The video-gamey animation wasn’t my favorite, but absolutely floored by this rendering of animal life and behavior. Every movement and glance and interaction was so lovingly specific, with no attempt to anthropomorphize these creatures — I’ve never seen anything like it on screen. The scene when the secretarybird ascends towards the light.. and the way the larger themes creep up on you - disaster, survival, togetherness — was magic.
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Match Point 2005
I remembered this film being very affecting when I first saw it in high school and wanted to revisit it. I had forgotten it was woody allen but that checks out with its pretentious philosophizing/aestheticization of greed and moral indifference. But somehow, it holds up? my younger self found the lust and passion and brooding charisma of Jonathan Rhys Myers a convincing engine for the plot but this time I noticed the stiffness, the cartoonishisness of all the interpersonal interactions — a layer of humor and even farce that underscores the operatic, tragic, melodramatic nature of the story.
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Janet Planet 2023
I love slow and contemplative but this felt so lazy and self indulgent. The loneliness and quiet despair of white rural suburbia, a quirky daughter and her inscrutable mother — themes we’ve seen a million times before, paraded pretentiously in long scenes with no emotional depth or weight. I felt like I could sense the film congratulating itself for its languorous takes and artistic sensibility, honestly felt second hand embarrassment for it (which is more emotion than I felt for…
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The Soulmate Search 2023
Uptight lawyer meets spontaneous “abstract artist,” learns valuable life lessons as formulated by AI screenwriting (I presume). One of five English movies available on my 11 hour Shanghai airlines flight.
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