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Dream Scenario 2023
Lacks the cruel sense of humour of Borgli's short films, instead merging his slick visual sensibilities with a zany-but-pleasant indie film narrative that would feel more at home in the 2000s than it does in the post-EEAAO A24 world. Still, pretty enjoyable... and Cage is very good in it.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Like Ready Player One, this is a film that gives the audience a world that absolutely sucks shit, and resolves itself by saying that it's Actually Good and you, the audience, must not only accept this new reality, but enjoy it as well. You will live in the pod and eat the bugs and be happy, etc.
Unlike Spielberg, the "Daniels" are dogshit storytellers. This film is 2.5 hours long because every new piece of information is delivered through tortured…
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Rifkin's Festival 2020
Distributors were right to blacklist Woody Allen’s latest. Repressed American audiences will never be able to handle the sheer sexual magnetism of Wallace Shawn in this role.