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  The Menu 2022

  ★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2022 2

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

  Commercial package with get it or not lines hiding the non-commercial approach. If anything, it's quite funny without breaking the illusion, though I couldn't help myself but question, what if Anya didn't have ten dollars?

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  Don't Worry Darling 2022

  ★★ Watched 12 Oct 2022

  Oh I'm very worried darling.

Popular reviews

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  Decision to Leave 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Jul 2022 2

  Park Chan-wook films are like visual poetry.

  Taking his film apart is (usually) pointless, as it's the summation of all their parts that turns his films into magic. It's like how Wong Kar-wai's nostalgic style can never be copied - it's not about just using his step printing technique, but about where, how, and why he's using it in combination with everything else that's on screen.

  In that sense, Decision to Leave is also about experiencing an emotion, and less about watching, hearing, or reading a story.

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Apr 2022 2

  It's a big bang.
  Individually, and on paper, there are things that just shouldn't work. Things that shouldn't amaze, or impress. Things that should distract, take away, diminish, and destroy. Conventions and studies aside, there are things that I just cannot see would add to the film in a positive way.
  But somehow, they come together, out of hand of anyone involved, and become its own thing.
  Like a big bang, it just...explodes, and forever changes.

  Darn it this film…