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Before Sunset 2004
criterion challenge #37: <80 minutes
less romantic than the first and much more visually beautiful. i liked their conversations but don't really support this ideologically, though i do enjoy a sequel that deconstructs its predecessor. team celine all the way.
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First Person Plural 2000
i think this was meant to be a complex but ultimately sweet portrait of transnational adoption and the definition of family, but i was mostly struck by how racist the adoptive family was, which also betrays a lot more about transnational adoption than i think the filmmaker intended. this is not to say that all transnational adoption is bad, but the film does an unintentionally good job at demonstrating how the adoption industry in south korea was created and influenced…
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Barbie 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
i had fun! but i also had sooo many problems with this. i thought the depression barbie ad in the middle was quite funny, at least. mostly i think the extent of my criticism depends on the audience: is this a movie for kids, or is it for adults? if it's for adults, why are the politics so vapid? if it's for kids, why do they never once acknowledge that barbie having cellulite isn't a bad thing, and why does…
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