Saw this one in a theater, after having won a draw from TIFF - and I'm really sad that many people are not going to have the same experience that I was ever so lucky to have with Disney's shafting this one on over to Disney+. But I think the one thing worth taking away from having seen Turning Red is that as someone who's grown up watching Pixar films for just about my entire life, it feels nice to…
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The Matrix 1999
In spite of wearing its own influences on its sleeve and many countless imitators that have followed, the Wachowskis’ The Matrix is truly a film of its own kind - one that has went on to define its own era and not without good reason. Blending the cyberpunk aesthetic with Hong Kong-inspired action set pieces,…
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The Black Phone 2021
Works in moments rather than the whole, and takes a bit too long to really get going. The kids are great, but I also can't help but feel like it finds itself stalling before we actually get a sense of the Grabber himself, especially with most of the scenes which take place at the school being terribly boring. Even then, once the Grabber enters the picture, we're also left with an incredibly hammy performance from Ethan Hawke, but it's a…
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Four Sons 1928
Another hit from the great John Ford, though I think you could also make a case for this maybe being among his best silent films because of the humanism that we tend to associate with many of Ford's later efforts finding itself at their creative peak. As many reviews have pointed out, Four Sons finds itself very greatly indebted to F. W. Murnau (especially Sunrise), but Ford still has more than enough at hand in order to make this his…
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Ikiru 1952
(NOTE 12/02/2019): This is not exactly my best writing - as I was only starting to develop my skills as a teenager with writing single paragraph-long reviews, but eventually I plan to write a more detailed review explaining why this is my favourite film of all time to take over this space. I will leave this old review up for keepsakes, but I will also include the new text to be visible first in the foreseeable future.
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