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  • Asteroid City
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
  • First Cow

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  • Stopmotion

  • Pictures of Ghosts

  • Birth

    ★★★★

  • Dune: Part Two

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  • Asteroid City

    Asteroid City

    ★★★★½

    EVERYTHING DIES, BABY, THAT'S A FACT

    Death often shadows Wes Anderson’s characters. His films are populated with widowers, orphans, and adult children who haven’t quite figured out how to move on from a parent’s passing. Consider how the figurative ghost of his late mother’s expectations haunts Max Fischer’s over-achieving exertions in 'Rushmore' (1998). Or the way that the gruesome death of Steve Zissou’s best friends fuels his Ahab-like oceanographic obsession in 'The Life Aquatic' (2004). Or the fact that the…

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  • Stopmotion

    Stopmotion

    Amazon Prime

    Well, *someone* sure saw ‘Mad God’ and ‘The Wolf House’, huh?

  • Pictures of Ghosts

    Pictures of Ghosts

    CINEMA PARADISO

    What makes a place special to us in a deeply personal way? It’s usually something more than the physical space that it occupies, more than the mere experience of its sights, sounds, smells, and textures. It’s a connection, an emotional bond with some essential or treasured aspect of our identities. Yet places are always changing. Time seeps into the cracks, tearing down and building up and tearing down again. Suddenly, the place where you grew up – or…

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  • Avatar: The Way of Water

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    ★★★½

    50 gazillion dollars to render the beads of water on a space whale’s fin and I think my favorite detail might be that the Sullykids speak in a Na’vi / U.S. Marine patois. So many “bros”.

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    Some real ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’ stuff going on here. Spoiler: This is not a bad thing.

    Review next week.