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Ali & Ava 2021
It’s a romance film elevated by its likeable + interesting working-class characters against the backdrop of a multicultural modern Britain that’s still struggling to reckon with its past. Everyone here falls back to old habits when conflict arises, and a lot of the film is about coming to terms with the faults of the past and using them as a catalyst to learn and move forward. It’s also impressively realistically down-to-earth without ever feeling like it’s deliberately trying to make…
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The Day of the Locust 1975
It’s probably not a great sign that I realised just before watching the movie that I had in fact read the novel, but barely remembered it. I really have nothing insightful to say and can’t really figure out why exactly I didn’t like it, I just found this extremely dull and didn’t think any of the characters were interesting in the slightest. I also don’t think I have much patience for this sort of broadly metaphorical and thematically basic “hey,…