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The Revenant 2015
The Revenant is quite the piece of cinema.
On one hand, it's a brilliant move on director Alejandro González Iñárritu (full discretion: I copy-pasted that from Wikipedia) to distance himself from the theatrical powerhouse that was his 2014 Academy Award-winning film, Birdman, with something so far outside the realm of theater that it'd be hard to realize it's the same guy...until you witness those gorgeous panoramic single shots and beautifully impressive use of natural light and remember: this man is…
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Anomalisa 2015
Some movies leave you feeling impressed, but not particularly...good about yourself or the world. Anomalisa is one of those movies.
Shot with painstaking detail, the number one thing about Anomalisa that I can totally appreciate is the stop motion animation. No question there. What especially impresses me about it, however, is how the movie takes advantage of that through expressing the anxieties and depression of Michael Stone. And yet, it's never force-fed to the audience and instead only makes sporadic…
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 2015
Mission: Impossible (huh, I didn't realize it was structured that way) is the rare kind of film franchise that only gets better with age. The first was decent, the second, not so much, the third was good, the fourth was fantastic, and here we are with what may very well be Tom Cruise and friends' best Mission yet: Rogue Nation.
The film starts off with a bang (not a literal one, mind you - but still just as good). If…
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Inside Out 2015
It'd been five years since Pixar had made a truly great movie. Cars 2 was a train wreck, Brave was middling at best, and Monster's University - while it certainly had its moments - was a sore sight from its predecessor. Pixar had seemingly peaked at Toy Story 3. The dream was over.
Or was it?
Finally. FINALLY, Pixar has made another classic with Inside Out. The concept alone - that our emotions exist in an animated state within the…
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