The most honest view of poverty in America I've ever seen. This movie never once feels like it passes judgement on any of its subject matter. By telling the story through the young girl's perspective, we remove bias and watch life for what life really is for some. It was a perfect, sympathetic, compassionate view. It's hard to watch, as it should be. This is a great and important film.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once dances on a tightrope the entire time. It is every genre. It is absurd. It is complex. It constantly feels like it shouldn't work at all, yet it never falls apart. Even as I watched, mesmerized, I thought there was no way to pull all of this beautiful chaos together for a proper ending... but not only did it do so, but it did so in a way that made even the absurdity deeply meaningful.…
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The Clovehitch Killer 2018
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Well acted, shot, and edited. I can't say I'm down with the writing and soundtrack. It was a strange decision to have Tyler find such clear evidence so early, because then we spend most of the movie watching him in such absurd denial about it that he helps destroy said evidence and then avoid looking any further. It makes for a frustrating watch.
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The Empty Man 2020
Ok, first, the good:
The opening sequence is its own little story and it sets an intriguing and unique backstory for The Empty Man. The concepts behind this tale are Buddhism gone horribly awry, and I haven't seen that before in a horror movie. It sets up potential for some really interesting ideas. Some scenes are creepy. The skeleton is cool looking. James Badge Dale's acting was also well done.The bad:
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mother! 2017
This feels like one of those movies in which it is terrible, but nobody's allowed to say so because everyone will tell them how they must not have understood it.
I get the metaphor, and I even agree with the environmental messages, but this does nothing to actually further them. It's an annoying film to watch. Two thirds of it is Jennifer Lawrence running around her busy house wishing it wasn't so. Then you get some absurd, shock value metaphors,…
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