It’s about you.
At the start of “DìDi,” you will be impressed by how lived-in the setting feels. Every room in the boy’s home will look so full with color, detail, with the nostalgia of being a kid, with the vibes of 2008 and the Internet. As you meet the movie’s protagonist, you will feel the realism of the boy and his family dynamics: the weight of mutual obligation, the infuriating transgressions, the awkward, straight-faced intimacy. You will remember how…
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Dìdi (弟弟) 2024
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Anora 2024
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A Movie like a Bender
“Anora” might be the most fun I’ve ever had in a theatre. But fun doesn’t cut it. It felt…magical. Sitting there at Aquarius with a full, energetic audience, I got that elusive feeling of sharing a masterpiece with other people. Like The Visitors at MOMA, except less moving and more delightful. It felt like we were all on a road trip together.
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Civil War 2024
At this point, it’s rare that violence in movies feels real to me. On-screen massacres, dismemberment, wars and torture-scenes occur often enough to make supercuts of them (do not show a Victorian child a KILL COUNT video).
Sometimes, though, there is the rare film where violence regains viscerality, where I am flinching at fights, averting my eyes at the sight of blood. “Civil War” is that kind of film.
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Oldboy 2003
"Oldboy" as in, an old, immature man as in, a man who spends his daughter's birthday drunk, as in, a man who spends 15 years in captivity, who can't control his impulses around women, who is consumed by a single, childish hatred. No wonder he's in love with someone who's only a young girl.
This movie is set up like an epic revenge movie, like Kill Bill type shit. When he beats up those gangsters who call him fuckwad cus…
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