Genuinely striking. On a technical level, without a doubt one of the most impressive war films ever made. Direction, cinematography, editing, sound, costuming, it all comes together into a stunning collection of sights and sounds. A near masterpiece.
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Late Spring 1949
What you have against what you could have, happiness given against happiness earned, duty against desire. Ozu's calm, humanist hand genuinely feels like a set of eyes, watching a family at a pivotal moment. So tender and affecting, especially in its depiction of the relationship between father and daughter.
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Edward Scissorhands 1990
Classic example of "shouldn't work, but it does". Strangely affecting with a knockout performance from Depp and some weirdly off-kilter and yet somehow utterly engrossing direction from Burton. There's nothing quite like an early career Burton fairytale.
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
So rich, so much texture. Impeccably crafted with all the verve and attention that can possibly be wrung from the animated medium. Every frame is so detailed, it's astonishing. Animation is used to the full extent here. In any other film, a scene like the battle at May's, with its incredible spatial awareness, swirling camerawork that reaches heights that live action can't (due to, well, physics), and stunning choreography, would be the highlight of the film, but in this picture, it's just another in a long line of stunning scenes. Spider-Man has never felt so inclusive, so inspiring, so heroic.
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