feature length rick and morty ep for new york times readers
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My Soul to Take 2010
still absurd, trashy, and an absolute joy - the frissons of watching craven make a metaphysical argument for a sort of monism of identity in the slasher, as fundamentally an inner psychodrama of masculinity which resolves the contradictory impulses and personhoods of adolescence, through such unabashedly juvenile and "lesser" material are considerable. i wish this was a tv show so we could have gotten hours more of the autistic kid/evil stepsister high school antics before everyone has to start getting axed
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Over the Edge 1979
much better than river's edge, largely because here the tension more blossoms organically from a plausible cast of characters than it is imposed didactically from above. handsomely shot and edited, too, and the lowkey, easy ramble of its style gradually ratcheting into something more nightmarish and uncontrolled is more poetically successful than anything malick ever did.
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Streetwise 1984
the first film in nearly 3 years to make me actually sob uncontrollably. fucking hell
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
cute and silly! too long but i liked it. also clearly no one on set knew how to pronounce mnemosyne which was kind of adorable
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Memoria 2021
joe is so godly he made me look at tilda swinton for nearly 2 and a half hours and it felt like a tight 90. so inviting in how it teaches you to be attuned to and inquisitive of the sound design as a viewer and yet obviously also preoccupied with the alienness of the sounds of the modern world, an inverted reflection of an ancient spiritual presence that refuses to be apprehended, to be known except as a living,…
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