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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  • Paprika

    ★★★★½

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★½

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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    You could take the words right out of Miguel O’Hara’s mouth and attribute them to the ugly, reactionary response to Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli’s decision to off Ultimate Comics’s Peter Parker: “Miles Morales was never meant to be Spider-Man”. When the creators of the now-beloved new Spider-Man decided that they could use that parallel Marvel imprint for a newer take on the character, people of course responded that Spider-Man is only Peter Parker - that’s ‘canon’. That very…

  • Liz and the Blue Bird

    Liz and the Blue Bird

    ★★★★½

    Loved this from the first time I saw it but got so much more out of it lately - in all of Yamada’s naturalistic physical acting and observation of body language that has become a signature of her work in animation. it shows from the very beginning, in how simply she shows how Nozomi and Mizore have fallen out of step with each other, drawing your attention to the difference in rhythm in their walk cycles by coupling it with…

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  • Ema

    Ema

    ★★★★

    still thinking about the dance sequence on the rooftop a week later - loved the complicated, messy polyamory and the film's focus on sensation over everything else, pretty much beats CLIMAX at its own game

  • The Matrix Reloaded

    The Matrix Reloaded

    sure, it remixes and interrogates the previous one by imagining the responsibilities and connotations of The One as a new kind of prison, but this is first and foremost a film about how the French are annoying