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  Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience 2016

  ★★★ Rewatched 20 Feb 2025 1

  Feel like I'm going a little crazy because I saw this in IMAX in 2016 and all I really remember from that screening is one GoPro shot that ran through a backyard with children playing. I'm sure it was there; a bunch of us talked about it afterwards, didn't we? My whole body felt it, seeing the grain blown up to IMAX size. In the MUBI version, it's gone. Am I nuts? Did I somehow merge this with the Pixel…

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  The Wild Robot 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Knight of Cups 2015

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 05 Apr 2016 1

  So simple, and yet it almost totally eluded me on last viewing: Malick's main musical motifs here - Grieg's "Ases dod," Kilar's "Exodus," Part's "Silouan's Song" and Vaughn Williams' "Fantasia" - all naturally build to ecstatic resolutions through repetition and release; undulating waves of emotion that emerge not so much as a climaxes but as walls of sheer catharsis. Encountering each of these pieces in the context of a late Malick work invites eager anticipation - who couldn't after the…

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  Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017

  ★★½ Rewatched 26 Dec 2017 2

  Since Looper and Breaking Bad, I have struggled to put my finger on a deep sense of dissatisfaction inherent within Johnson's compositions involving actors, which are simultaneously brisk, clean, and efficient, and yet bereft of texture, detail, or a lively perspective. They are actually pretty blandly imagined; organized according to the most basic and brutish principals of dividing space between a face and whatever else happens to be around or behind it.

  In a similar sense, Johnson's facility with said…

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