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This is just what grown-ups do.
I already have an idea of what it must have felt like. Sneaking around with you.
A film about confidence, self-assuredness, and emotional maturity that evokes more depth than its characters ever could. May December is about empathy, that strange word we have in our language that just means to know what someone else is feeling, or better yet, feel what they are feeling. It's this paradox of mimicry, a certain security that we…
Add this to the Twisters canon of movies with a good premise, a likable cast, and some of the funniest directorial and writing mistakes possible for a night out with some friends. The constant slow-motion zooms were hilarious but so was the fact that they never addressed the conceit of the key relationship during the falling action. Don’t even get me started on Jacob Batalon.
Everyone knows Bong kind of likes to oscillate between his really prestige work and his satirical stuff, and though I’m sure some were disappointed that Mickey 17 was more so the latter, I was really happy to see Bong’s wit shine in an era that needs to be satirized more than ever. A few years back, this got this uber-serious teaser where Pattinson was shown strapped to a sort of brain scan and the camera flipped upside down in a really…
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All you’ll have to do is come up the stairs.
What is a metaphor? My personal definition is that a metaphor is something simple and concrete that conveys something much more complicated and abstract. In film, metaphors are particularly strong, because they can be visually dynamic as well as narratively. Bong Joon-Ho is perhaps the human being with the deepest understanding of a metaphor. He knows how to make one ebb and flow, how to make you comfortable with a…
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Brilliant, sincere, thoughtful, brutal; auteur filmmaker and playwright Florian Zeller writes and directs what is without a doubt the smartest, softest, saddest, and best film of 2020. He does so with a tour-de-force performance by veteran Anthony Hopkins and a more subtle performance by Olivia Colman. All three people deserve Oscars for this film, but I'll settle for some Letterboxd recognition. The thing The Father does that makes it…
