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Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009
"Who am I, Kylie? Why a fox? Why not a horse, or a beetle, or a bald eagle? I'm saying this more as, like, existentialism, you know? Who am I?"
Perhaps not all of us, but many of us possess the existential, gaping sort of rot in the bottom of our stomachs. That which aches for answers and greatness and confidence and all of the rest of the admirable traits. I appreciate how this film explores that in numerous characters,…
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How to Have Sex 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"It's fine."
"Nah, it's not."If this film captures anything with utmost accuracy, it is the face of a woman who has just realised they've been assaulted. Mia McKenna-Bruce walks us through it with excruciatingly slow, heartbreakingly empty, movement. Having witnessed the dawning of such an expression on multiple occasions myself, she does so with a precision that cuts a clean line from the height of my ribs to the very floor of my abdomen. 'It's fine,' is what we…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
I try to convince myself that a slow life is fuller, requires less from others. I attempt to absorb myself in the wailing of my Bob Dylan CD and the kinder touch of the wind and the curling of sand between my toes and I utter like some absurd manifestation; this is enough, this will be enough, it is enough. The horizon carries the laughter of families and groups of friends and I believe(?) that I am better for my…
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Mickey 17 2025
“You don’t look like you’re printed out. You’re just a person.”
I have a lot to say about this film, so much so that it all kind of blurs into one big screaming match within my own echoing chamber of a brain.
Mickey 17 makes for the perfect fucking protagonist, I’ll tell you what. Self-doubtful and downtrodden, desperate and slightly pathetic, played by Robert Pattinson with a funny accent, by god the man has it all. His journey was enrapturing…
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