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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The first piece of Wallace & Gromit media, certainly the first feature, I've sought out (though I'm cultured enough to have at least seen the climax of "The Wrong Trousers"), and it's as tight, funny (punny, too!), and wonderful as I'd hoped it would be. Appropriately for its thematic commentary on AI, it's also visibly handmade and beautiful, with enough moments of mouth-agape "how did they do that?" stop-motion magic and exciting action to sing, even if Park and Co. can't…
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Nosferatu 2024
With his Nosferatu, Eggers melds the sensibilities and preoccupations he’s had since The VVitch (astonishing and immersive period detail/costumes/production design, using said detail to drop the viewer into the history/traditions/customs of a time foreign to them without winking or blinking, a particular focus on the period’s spirituality, putting Ralph Ineson somewhere) with what feels like his most commercial and accessible project to date. Even with The Northman’s borderline video-game-y “seek revenge on a wrongdoer” questline, something about Nosferatu’s story having been…
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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies 2018
Kinda weird watching this now, when the DC Extended Universe from which this mines most of its metatextual jokes is assuredly dead (maybe multiple times over, long live cockroach-eating Patrick Wilson); not only did Aquaman get a movie, he got two. But this remains funny, breezy, and watchable, enough to crystallize how plain irreverence—something Jelenic and Horvath’s slavishly reverent Mario movie(s) could use more of—clicks a lot better for me in this sort of thing than active (condescending? patronizing? IDK) fourth-wall…
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Good One 2024
One of those intimate, well-observed, not-quite-coming-of-age-because-the-main-character’s-on-the-precipice-of-college indie dramas I’m glad exist—not quite Actual People, but no slouch either! Collins is tremendous, the world feels real and authentic to 2020s America without even trying (the casual use of iPhones for texting/social media and the presence of the Subaru are much more details than any kind of product placements) yet nonetheless beautiful and reflective/contemplative in the focus and smaller moments of nature, and Donaldson’s script is so low-key and effective that the…
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Evil Dead Rise 2023
It hits the ground running with a brutal opening kill and the best title treatment of the year, after which it takes a minute (okay, several more minutes than I have fingers) to introduce the Necronomicon proper, but once it does, Evil Dead Rise friggin’ moves, only stopping for the most necessary exposition and having the sense to get in, do its thing, and get (the hell) out. It’s got its Raimi (zooms, frantic tracking shots, a sense of kinetic glee),…
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Bottoms 2023
Bodies Bodies Bodies suggested that Rachel Sennott’s best performances come when her characters are mean and desperate (will see Shiva Baby eventually and report back), and to make a long explanation short, Bottoms confirms this. Only the “fucking ride” it was introduced as in the parameters of being the teen high school sex comedy that it is, but it’s consistently funny (I’m torn on whether the size and constant laughter of the crowd were net goods, but whatever), unapologetically and authentically queer, surprisingly…
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