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The Apartment 1960
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There's really nothing I can critique, review-wise. So many scary twists and turns, and yet everything ties up into a comical, cute, sincere little bow. Suicide, infidelity, the corporate ladder, love, standing up for yourself, the list goes on. There must be over a dozen characters with wildly different motivations and backgrounds—all fleshed out. There's so much to go over. So, I'll talk about something different.
My favorite part of this film is Baxter straining spaghetti with a tennis racket.…
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Paris, Texas 1984
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This is a textbook case of a film with great elements that mostly fail to work well together. The captured landscapes are sublimely empty—beautiful stuff. To complement them, Wenders uses a deep, prolonged, dying-of-thirst western score. Although it eventually becomes slightly repetitive, there's a much-appreciated hypnotic quality to it all. To fill the silence, the audience has quite a bit to chew on regarding what circumstances might have led to Travis's amnesia, temporary muteness, and his absurd, almost biblical emergence…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
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The more I think about Everything Everywhere All at Once, the less I like it. It surpasses any possible expectation I could have for a movie on a $25 million budget, but its visual creativity is about all the film has going for it.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. I can deal with a plot that doesn't make any sense (which this one doesn't). But I can't also deal with all the other aspects of the…
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959
How has a revisionist, imperialist, pseudo-soap opera captivated this website?
For a film as lauded as this one, the actual filmmaking is uninspired. The film comes off as episodic—day in, day out, Kaji and the camp will face new trials, tune in next week to see what happens! None of the characters really have any kind of arc—our protagonist finishes the film just as emotionally frantic and steadfast in his morals as he started it, and his wife is permanently…
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