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Days of Heaven 1978
“You’re only on this earth once. And in my opinion, as long as you’re around… you should have it nice.”
As with all Malick films, Days of Heaven unfolds like a dream—long, contemplative (sometimes ponderous) shots paired with minimal yet impactful dialogue and a tantalizingly sparse score from the GOAT, Ennio Morricone. It’s pensive, protracted, and sometimes prayerful, a film that lingers in both beauty and silence. The minutiae of personal relationships, a lie, and the great lengths we go…
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First Reformed 2017
I love how First Reformed serves as:
- A meditation on the conservative evangelical movement that is poisoning, eroding, and damning the Christian church,
- One man’s struggles with addiction, lust, grief, suicide, self-worth, and his relationship with the natural world and the capitalist state,
- A mirror reflecting the climate crisis facing humanity today and how little is being done to avert it.It can do all of these, some of these, or none of these, and still stand…
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Mickey 17 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I liked it. It’s a bit scruffy and heavy-handed, swinging between super goofy and unexpectedly poignant. Bong Joon-Ho continues to oscillate between serious, incisive storytelling and slapstick farce, which makes me curious about his next film.
This isn’t as surgical as Parasite. It’s not the same kind of bitingly tragic commentary on how we subjugate each other, but it does tackle those themes—head-on. The first act is awesome, with Pattinson doing some cool-ass shit while also being painfully, obnoxiously hot…
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