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In the Lost Lands 2025
Paul Haslinger’s score had some terrific sections to it, including the hard-pounding, piston engine pattern-aping cue which introduced the war train, and the lancing synth textures which provided something to be detained by while some characters were doing something or another among some rocks. That score only burned brightly briefly, however, and I am not sure that I can come up with any other element of In the Lost Lands which was in any way deserving of praise. Whatever the…
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Away 2019
There were some magnificent individual scenes in Away, but it was not the marvel it might have been, as the narrative ultimately proved too diffuse, the best character, the yellow bird, was underused, the climax was underwhelming and the quality of the animation varied between poor and execrable. The shadow monster was a fine creation, though, a troubling, mysterious half-void whose function and motivation were a short distance from being fully comprehensible, but only a short distance, there being enough…
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Torn 2021
A psychotherapy project dressed up as a documentary feature, which ignored practically all those aspects of its notional subject’s ascent in the climbing world and final expedition which were necessary for a general audience to gain and retain an appreciation of that subject, so that it might tap away at those few matters which were of particular, indeed unique, paramountcy for the film’s director, who happened to be the notional subject’s son. I do hope that making the film helped…
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Flow 2024
I was appallingly understimulated while watching Flow, a malformed animation which in spite of its title was notable for the absence of any flow which it brought to its shapeless proceedings. The film had no dialogue, for starters, and a narrative which existed only in the broadest sense, which placed an enormous burden on the visuals, which were repulsive, positively archaic with respect to the technology which had apparently been used to create them, and stylistically indifferent. It was a…
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