It really is as if Lana Wachowski took Jean Baudrillard's criticisms of the original trilogy to heart - specifically, that the original film is exactly the type of film a real-life Matrix would create as intentional disinformation, then used that thought as a jumping off point to create a truly modern and almost painfully heartfelt love letter to the original trilogy, one that both shows immense respect to and also has a hell of a lot of fun playing with…
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The Many Saints of Newark 2021
It's alright. Earned an extra half star for being the first film I saw after the pandemic, and the first I saw with my mom in a really long time. The cinematography ranges from really solid to dull, the pacing is trash, it feels like an overly-packed and disconnected series of events in Dickie's life that don't really elucidate any of the interesting plot possibilities that this film and story had. "Who Made Tony Soprano" was a stupid tag line…
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