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Bottoms 2023
Rachel Sennot has a weird habit of exclusively starting in the most annoying letterboxd / Twitter-core things you’ve ever seen. Very bold creative decision to make a film that you sell as an outrageous laugh out loud riot with a dark twist and kinda just forget to make jokes ever lean into the inherent nastiness of its central conceit. The swings into more surreal and absurd comedy is a good angle but if you’re gonna do that and then try…
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023
I don’t think its a stretch to say that the towers of this ungodly mega franchise have been crumbling in recent years, with decreasing financial returns & general lack of enthusiasm has seemingly growing in recent years. But especially now, in the wake of last years biggest film being a genuinely astonishing and sincerely crafted piece of old school spectacle, showing us exactly what a project of this magnitude should look like, does this seem even more insulting. This is barely…
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Barbie 2023
A walking contradiction, I guess I respect the attempt to reckon with it’s position as essentially a corporate product but all that is kinda rendered obsolete when you ultimately at the end of the day are still a film functioning under a mega-corporation to sell toys, and I don’t think this or it’s aggressive marketing really does much in its favor to work through that kind of intense corporate control. Lots to admire here, really clever use of production /…
