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  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
  • The Sting
  • Columbus
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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • The Monkey

    ★★★

  • Parthenope

    ★★★

  • Maria

    ★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Incredible sci-fi romcom. Looks like $9 bajillion dollars. Pattinson is astonishing, somehow grounding these guys while making those choices. Shame that Bong made this a Trump victory lap movie and it came out when it did, though I think time will be kind to those elements of the story once we transition past this wretched moment in history to whatever degree we can, and for however long we can.

  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★★

    Beautifully captured, and a coherent & detailed bit of worldbuilding, as is always the case with Perkins, plus it's genuinely funny, but I wish the misanthropy got under my skin more? I get wanting to make something more explicitly buoyant after Longlegs, but I think it came at the expense of the sadism at the core of this story.

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  • Pokémon Detective Pikachu

    Pokémon Detective Pikachu

    ★★★½

    This is anime come to life. Vivid world-building, wild plot pivots, big emotions, grand expository dumps from a cast going ALL-IN on their archetypes, etc. It may be far too weird for many, and it gets *weird*, but I wanted Ryme City and the forests around it to swallow me whole. Rob Letterman, John Mathieson, and the prod/VFX teams have created something delightful.

    Video game curse broken. Reynolds rules. Get me a Pikachu. And a Jigglypuff. And that one that serves coffee.

  • Night of the Coconut

    Night of the Coconut

    “I’m Chloe, but…not the Chloe you know”

    The blockbuster machine surges ever onward, flurries of pre-vis’d sludge across the decades merging into a sea of temporal mucus.

    Amidst the detritus, Night of the Coconut emerges as a singular entity. Even in the cacophony of multiverse extravaganzas gracing cinemas this year, the saga of Charl vibrates with an unmistakable clarity of purpose.

    One way or another, he truly is the key to our success.