For years, I swore off animal films because I couldn't deal with how they would cut straight through all of my walls to my tender, squishy heart (thanks a lot A Dolphins Tale). Gratefully, I came around in time. Today, Flow took me on a true journey of feelings, ironically a profoundly human experience inspired by the purity of animals. If only we knew how to be more like them.
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Amélie 2001
I've been watching this film for over 20 years, and it still dazzles me, charms me and heartens me. It weaves a tale of an optimism that survives pain, loss and loneliness, a kind that is almost unbelievable yet somehow l buy in time after time. Amelie spotlights all the tiny beauties in everyday life and reminds me why I'm glad to be alive.
Maybe it's nostalgia from discovering this film at 17, a time when I was also discovering…
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Brooklyn 45 2023
The second act was so tediously boring, the corpse on the table was more energized than I was.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
I'm one of those Fury Road warboys who will ride eternal for the greatest action movie of this century. That said, Furiosa didn't take me anywhere close to Valhalla. The movie had lost two stars by somewhere in the second act, and while it did have some real redeeming qualities (Hemsworth's performance, flying baddies, sound design, ATJ's incredible eyeballs, et al.), I struggled with the film's many shortcomings. I've read a bunch of other LB reviews and I wish I'd had the transcendent experience that many of you had, but I just didn't. I really wanted to.
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