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Master Gardener 2022
At this point, it should be clear that the films of Paul Schrader rely every bit as much on formula as a James Bond or MCU flick. The situations may change, but the soul remains the same. In Schrader's case, that soul is a damaged one: usually haunted by the sins of their past, or the sins inflicted upon them by those with power over them, his heroes are lonely, damaged, diary-keeping men who usually redeem themselves - according to…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
Seeing this and Beau Is Afraid over the space of a few days has been one of the richest consecutive moviegoing experiences of my moviegoing life; up there with (if not quite being able to match) the one-two punch of following up Birdman with Inherent Vice back in 2015, but I digress. Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse is, for my money, pretty clearly the best of the recent crop of 'multiverse'-obsessed movies, a sub-genre which troubled the first true post-COVID Marvel…
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Beau Is Afraid 2023
The (largely) symbolic 'phallic journey', which many theorists believe lays the foundation for every narrative film ever made, is literalised in Beau Is Afraid, a Wizard of Oz-meets-Under the Silver Lake-meets-unconscious primordial nightmare-type odyssey from Ari Aster, who with his latest proves conclusively (as if it needed conclusive proving) that the haunting, at times unbearable emotional wallop of Herediatary was no fluke. The excavations of family turmoil via surreal, supernatural imagery returns in BIA, only this time it's hilarious as…
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