Thought this one was good. Nothing much to really say about it except I don't think Shyamalan gets enough credit for getting great performances out of child actors? (I don't even know if that's true, this is the first of his movies I've seen since Unbreakable but it sounds right to me)
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Vesper 2022
Really cool movie. Gorgeous production and all the effects between practical and visual are seamless. I would imagine this got a lot of comparisons with the work of Simon Stalenhag, and I think this is something that really takes that biofuture aesthetic and really uses it to its advantage.
Just really inventive and it's always cool to see an independent sci-fi movie that feels like it really punches above its weight, visually.
Hope more people see this one!
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Found this really tedious, even though its brand of maximalism worked really hard to prove otherwise. Everything Everywhere All at Once is a gilded lily, and for all its multiverse rulesplaining, quirky randomness, and surprisingly middling fight scenes, it's all in service of a story that is ultimately pretty predictable and contrived.
The style of the Daniels is not really to my taste. The way the camera moves just feels so unpleasant to me. I know their background is in…
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975
Having watched this a second time has really let me push beyond the spectacle with a lot more clarity about my feelings. I don't think I have much new to say that anyone else hasn't already said about it. The thing that weighs on me lately is how many of the most evil people in human history go on to live contented lives and die quietly of old age.
After World War II, the United States rehabilitated and hired 1,600…
