“You’re going to have to turn this opportunity yes” is the best line and best line reading of the 21st century
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You Can Live Forever 2022
Lovely, aching romance about being an outsider, about being inducted into something. Incredible use of Jean-Michel Blais's "Hypocrite."
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
It's been true for a while now that big tentpole movies require of their viewers an enormous amount of what I guess you'd call "extra-textual" knowledge — homework, basically, about whatever "cinematic universe" you're about to enter — but Rise of Skywalker is unique to my knowledge in that it doesn't merely require expansive "in-universe" extra-textual knowledge (of characters, groupings, history) but also "real-world" extra-textual knowledge. If you want to understand this movie — not just if you want to get…
