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Bridge of Spies 2015
A hoot and a half, perfect pitch for Hanks, Spielbergs almost over does it I think—it's one thing to end with the wife looking appreciative and impressed at her husband, and then it's a bit over the top to follow it with a stranger looking at him that way, and then it's a bit more to have him take that in and then think about kids getting shot by snipers... it's maybe a bit much and a bit muddled there.…
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange 1936
The pacing ebbs and flows as you might expect with a 30s movie, but has some really great scenes, and the leftist metaphor of the fascistic swindler and womanizer (rapist) who's faked death is such a relief that finally the character realizes the revolutionary impulse so that the collective they've formed can live on is interesting. There's also a whole colonial aspect to this with the repeated mention of the Tonkin campaign, the racist comments by the old man who…
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The Donut King 2020
Really lovely film, one of my favorite articles is about Ted Ngoy and it's been permanently on my bookmarks bar since 2014 I reread it every couple years. In once sense it's an american dream story, the rise and fall of a capitalist, but there's also a story there about defeating corporations (dunkin donuts, get out of california and rot in hell plz, ty) and there's something that feels anti-capitalist about helping fellow cambodians take over all the donut shops…
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Barbie 2023
Production design on another level, Gerwig executing at such a high level with a totally different kind of movie/production than she’s done before — I feel like White Noise may have been a sort of warm up for her and Baumbach both in the writing and stylings… they both went totally heightened (tho, in different ways with each their own flair) and despite their previous work being mostly realist and fairly grounded they both excelled…
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