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Wagon Master 1950
The stunning monochromatic vistas and the almost constant singing and dancing help dilute this affable but otherwise generic western. Religious expansion west - Mormons on the move - butts up against a criminal element (murderous kin, established in a pre-credits sequence) and dire traveling conditions, with a drunken medicine show thrown in for good measure. “Wagon Master” is John Ford-tight, and plenty entertaining.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Given that this film wasn’t officially given the checkered flag until after “Part One” was released, there’s a distinct possibility that I’m not completely out of my mind in suggesting that both films can be viewed independently as separate artistic entities despite the impressive, nearly seamless continuation of the story. (The “previously on” segment is couched in Princess Irulan Corrinno’s diary entry and it’s relegated to a minute of screen time.)
“Part Two” completely embodies my stray complaint with “Part…
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Pumpkin 2002
Or, Character Arc: The Movie. (Okay, the smugness is out of the way). Joking aside, Pumpkin defies something that obvious. It's like an after school special played as satire. It's like a teen flick bathed in the attention to detail and sensibility usually reserved for Merchant and Ivory. It's like Beauty and the Beast with no agenda. It's like a movie Todd Solondz might make if he'd grow the hell up. It's like, surprisingly remarkable.
What sets Pumpkin so daringly…
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Blue Car 2002
Finally delivered: This year's blueprint for generic indie filmmaking. ("But Ben, the blue car in the title means so much more than you're giving it credit for...")
Look - shut up; I don't endorse films where little girls dress up like angels and collapse on alters in churches. Films where people throw their now meaningless poetry into the ocean and watch it sink below the waves. Films where people substitute a spur-of-the-moment anger doctrine for a long prepared piece of…