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It Follows 2014
I get that it's supposed to be a story about adulthood anxiety/death anxiety, but it's kind of hard to see that as the prevailing narrative instead of being punishment for promiscuity, when that's the singular rule that the monster runs on.
Reading lines straight out of Dostoevsky 3 times felt like the director was trying to get me to believe "it really is about death anxiety guys", and I did, but what I really felt like was that they should have just come up with a better plot engine instead.
Overall a good genre piece with nice moody sets though.
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Doctor Sleep 2019
If you want a tl;dr: People who can get past the childish critic mentality of “callbacks are always bad and uncreative” will enjoy this movie a lot.
Many hate when King gets too obsessed with psychic powers in his writing and enjoy his more grounded horror/thriller novels, and that’s a fair criticism to leverage on Doctor Sleep (the book) and many of his other novels. It’s one Kubrick shared with The Shining as a novel too, and a big part…
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
"How Do You Live?" is supposedly Miyazaki's last movie to be directed, the end of an era (the only era so far) for Ghibli Studios. And this film works its hardest to make this the fitting send off it ought to be.
The film feels like much of a return to form looking back at the giants of Ghibli in Totoro and Spirited Away, taking both the quaint Japanese countryside of Totoro in the first third of the movie and…
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Look Back 2024
Incredible! An excellent adaptation of both Fujimoto’s original panels and artstyle (more than CSM S1) while also making some slight additions that only add to the richness of it all. Amazing soundtrack, and amazing use of silence as a narrative tool as well.
The girls are not all right
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