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Coming into this with a better understanding of “Dylan goes Electric!” makes the poetry of the film come alive even more.
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Mickey 17 2025
Bong Joon-Ho may be the best world builder in modern cinema. The fables he creates feel new and old. Have I always known about sweet bumbling Mickey 17 or did he just print out in 2025? The iconography and characters Bong Joon-Ho spins out just stick in the best places of my imagination. Mickey 17 isn’t as structurally sound as Parasite or Snowpiercer but I didn’t care during the runtime. The cinematography is beautiful the acting is giddy and the set design is transporting. Not perfect but a worthy addition to the anti-capitalism campfire stories of Bong Joon-Ho.
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Some may leave Killers of the Flower Moon and feel that they didn’t get what they paid for. They will be wrong but also a little right.
They will be wrong because they are misguided. When someone distills something difficult into something understandable, it is tempting to think that the newly transformed complexity was never actually complex. That’s only because the person who translated has done the favor of hiding their work in service of the result. It takes a…
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Poor Things 2023
A movie bursting at the seams that flips between wonderfully decadent and tired. Like a basketball player that can only dunk. Sometimes you’re on your feet shouting and other times you find yourself caring less.
This one could have used better pacing and the Yorgos hyper styling of lens choice, set design, costume design, performance and even music, while wonderful, added to lack of contrast within the film. Great surrealism balances the familiar and unfamiliar and Poor Things is mostly all gas on the absurd, but when it clicks, it’s some of the best movie watching of the year.
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