Thought I'd round out my 2024 movie viewing with this one because I felt I couldn't wrap up the year and just leave a Julianne Nicholson joint sitting there unwatched. Not sure I really connected with this one, though. It's still, quiet but for the noises of nature all around, and I loved how those sounds envelop you. Janet seems to have bad taste in men, bad experiences in her past, she deeply loves her daughter who deeply loves her…
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Flow 2024
An interesting companion to "The Wild Robot," which anthropomorphizes its animals like a traditional children's animated film. I think I prefer the approach in "Flow," where the animals act like animals ... mostly. Like, I don't think secretarybirds are secretly expert sailors, but generally speaking the animal behavior feels natural. I liked the expressiveness of the characters, which doesn't sacrifice their animalness. I liked the simplicity of the story. I liked the eerie subtext that suggests an abandoned or deserted…
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Babylon 2022
There's a LOT of movie here. Too much movie. Not just that the movie is 188 minutes long, but that it covers so many characters, plot twists, and tones that it doesn't come together despite individual scenes that are stellar on their own. Not all of the characters get the fleshed out arcs they deserve. The tonal mood swings give emotional whiplash. Another film where I appreciate the chutzpah more than the execution.
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She Said 2022
Doesn't reinvent the wheel. I wouldn't say this is a stylistically adventurous film. It's a straight-ahead investigative procedural, but a satisfying example of the genre that takes a sober approach to journalism as a profession and lets the importance of the story speak for itself without overplaying it. Worth watching just for the scene where Carey Mulligan curses out a creepy guy at a bar.
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