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Choose or Die 2022
This is what I get for instantly watching a new random Netflix movie instead of the zillion of movies in my watchlist.
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Turning Red 2022
Entertaining, but I didn’t feel like it belonged up there with the rest of Pixar’s work. It was entertaining and sweet, but something was missing about the story that could elevate it to that level which Pixar movies have got us accustomed to. I simply didn’t engage with the characters and thought I would enjoy the red panda more than I did. A great coming of age concept in which a girl becomes a woman, but the execution just didn’t elevate the material to the levels I expected. Still a recommended watch and that is always true when it comes to Pixar.
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Dune 2021
I will never watch any kind of making-of documentary or behind-the-scenes featurette about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. I don’t want to know how this film was made. I prefer to believe the extremely convincing illusion that Villeneuve somehow traveled to the year 10,191 and documented the strange civilization he encountered. Dune is full of stylization and visual artistry, but the future it conjures feel so complete and tactile that some segments play like a documentary of the world to come — which is an especially impressive feat since that world involves giant sandworms that consume everything that passes through their sphincter-like maws.
Full review at ScreenCrush.
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Jingle All the Way 1996
A businessman suffers a mental break while trying to salvage his horrible relationship with his child (Jake Lloyd!) on Christmas. He searches for a popular toy, fights an army of Santas, gets cucked by Phil Hartman, nearly burns down his neighbor’s house, and punches a reindeer in the face. Basically it’s a Yuletide Falling Down … except it’s a comedy? Ho ho ho.
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There's Someone Inside Your House 2021
they drove through ... a fire ... in a cornfield ?
(skip this, it’s just another netflix shit show)
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Honey Boy 2019
The only thing my father gave me that was of any value is pain. And you want to take that away?
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This film went in on dealing with an abusive relationship between father and son and the wounds such toxic dynamic can leave in one's mind. Even though the wounds may be healed through time, it is by finding the right mindset and surroundings that someone can truly accept the scars that are left and move past…
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Halloween 2018
Halloween '18 is gruesome, carrying a lingering essence of being both haunted and hunted, all the while exploring the cathartic nature of these events to its characters and the inexplicability of evil itself and the many forms it can take. Only the single presence of this individual with a mask was enough to carry a shot, as if it was death looking down on us. There's no running and hiding from him, who walks as slowly as do we, human…
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