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Adolescence 2025
First thing I can remember watching in a long time where the single-shot conceit deepens rather than hollows outs. It constantly saws through rock bottom to fall into unplumbed depths below; cutting would be the easy way out.
The shot of Manda and Lisa about to get out of the van, paint splattered against the window like vomited up grief…early contender for image of the year.
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A League of Their Own 1992
I laughed, I cried, I queened out the whole time. Perfect sports movie.
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The Master 2012
“You’re safe. You’re at sea.”
For my money, the best American movie of the century so far. A film about the dislocation—emotional, spiritual, sexual—of the American psyche, and the ruinous push and pull of the institutions claiming to provide a safe harbor.
What stood out on this watch was how the screenplay slowly unravels the extent to which Dodd is absolutely full of it without ever compromising his intelligence. His second book is a flop not because it’s hackneyed bullshit…
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The Brutalist 2024
An absolute magic trick of a first half, thorny and beautiful and elusive and overwhelming, then dissipates to vapor in the second half. Even as its imagery remains stunning, everything on its mind about the unstable power dynamics between artist and patron, capitalist and laborer, citizen and immigrant gets sanded down to the most obvious version of itself.
What’s gonna keep me coming back for a second viewing is that epilogue, though—really have to stew on it since I get…
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