When the droning court music flute mixes with the arp-ing harp and you're looking at that orange kimono, it simply slaps.
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I'm Still Here 2024
The sentimental period piece is not typically something I go for, but this one really got me. The immediate tragedy of the plot (and yes, it is sad) is only a staging area for a movie about many more things: motherhood, memory, justice, and reparations, all of it uniquely and subtly interwoven, never as cliche as it sounds. It got me to think about my mother-in-law a lot, who has no historical connection whatsoever to the story this movie told,…
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Strange Darling 2023
This one's for all the fellas who are sick and tired of dishonest ladies in their lives. But seriously, how did this happen? I haven't seen a more blatantly misogynist movie in a pretty long time, and all of the stuff found a few google searches from its immediate orbit unfortunately confirms a lot of my worst assumptions. The director is consistently photographed in a variety of newsboy caps; he clearly wrote and edited his own Wikipedia page, placing special…
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Kinds of Kindness 2024
You're really regretting your decision to stay out for one more drink, because a much sloppier Yorgos is telling stories you've heard before, but he's messing up the punchlines. Some of his improbably brilliant friends swing by the bar, but they let him ramble, and you're not really sure what they see in this guy.
Even if we did grant Lanthimos everything he's demanding here, none of it is very compelling. It's an Anthro 101 story about ritual withering in…
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