It’s got that weird musty pre-Renaissance Disney vibe, but I love the creative way the production design plays with scale—how all the exteriors are mouse-sized, made of shoes and old boxes and holes in the wall, but all the interiors are normal. I laughed with delight more than a few times!
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Before Sunrise 1995
His human figures are always so transitory. It's funny. Transitory?
Transitory.
I forget that they don’t see the play. The one thing they have scheduled all night, and they never go. They do encounter artists throughout the night, but those artists are transitory—a vagrant poet, roving café-boat musicians, a palm reader, a harpsichordist practicing at home.
In my memory of the film, they do see the play and we see the guy in the ridiculous cow costume. But no—they slip…
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Oppenheimer 2023
I really wish Christopher Nolan would tell a story with some scenes rather than indulge in confusing overlapping narratives and bombastic scores. He can’t keep getting away with this!
The test scene is as exciting as you’d expect, but that really feels like the bare minimum for this subject. And it just made me think about the incredible fallen tree sequence in Sorcerer.
Lots of great actors doing their best to get through some truly corny dialogue. Almost every emotional…
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The 12th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special 2025
Mr. Oscar will have a lot to say when we see the intended cut of Zombie 2 2
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