Kaluuya seems to be the only thing in this that points to any rewatchability. This is Spielberg filtered through Peele’s passionate diversification of the stylistic principles of mainstream (white) Hollywood, and those are just warring impulses in the end. Meanwhile, the diversification simply combines 90’s Sundance Select-isms and lessons directors supposedly learned from Spielberg but actually twisted to their own pompous ends. Went in for Jaws, got Independence Day.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Hmmm, more artistic integrity than I expected. Sorry. What's with A24 and producing films dealing with the yawning expanse of existence, it's lame.
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Eaten Alive 1976
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