I remember watching this years ago and thinking, oh, I guess it was just the cultural norm in the 1920s for adults to kiss their children on the mouth a lot. And then I watched a lot more movies from the 1920s, and actually, no, that's not the truth, Ellen.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
This was one of the most electrifying experiences I've ever had in my life. An audiovisual miracle of color and contrasting art styles exploding out of every frame; a game-changer for animation that deserves to permanently alter how Hollywood approaches any blockbuster; and—perhaps an unpopular opinion—a film that still manages to tell an incredibly tight, propulsive, complete story about young people confronting the terrible difficulty of doing the right thing in a fractured, disillusioned world. Don't let the knowledge that…
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How to Die Young in Manila 2020
I think the metaphor doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. There's space here for the Elijah Canlas character to express a little more feeling regarding all the weird things he encounters on this nighttime walk, but the film chooses not to go there. So I didn't quite feel the sense of danger or fear that I think the short wanted to create.
That said, it's an undeniably creative portrayal of the often seedy network of people that some young, underprivileged…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
I don't really know how to write a review for this one, so here are a few moments from my unexceptional life that made me feel how this film made me feel, all at once:
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At my school's annual salu-salo (party; fiesta) when I was about 10 years old, my teacher decided to present awards to each and every student in her class. She had made these small tokens for every single one of us. I can't remember what…
