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Asteroid City 2023
As Wes Anderson's style becomes increasingly co-opted and spoofed by parodies (some of which genuinely impressive and funny) and ripped-off by so-called A.I. generated artwork (all of which genuinely hideous and awful) the real McCoy has only become more and more special to me. When the countless imitators leave so much to be desired, Anderson's assured artistry is put into such perspective. Everyone recognizes Wes Anderson's style and everyone wants to replicate it, but no one but Wes can actually…
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Son of Saul 2015
The video essay equivalent of this review can be watched here ->
youtu.be/cIaY4Xj_NRA𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒌𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐, a German word for “special command unit”, has been used in a number of contexts as it involves the Holocaust. Jewish prisoners kept alive during this time were ordered to perform a wide range of activities for the functioning of Nazi death camps and World War II efforts, and prisoners chosen to serve as sonderkommandos specifically were forced to take up tasks related to the disposal…
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006
Within seconds I'm laughing.
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The Muppet Movie 1979
As I assume people saw with my previous review of this film, this is my favorite film of all time. For me everything about this film is perfection, from the music to the puppetry to the comedy and just every little aspect of it. Most of all, to me this feels like the place where we get the purest performance of Kermit the Frog, and because of that, the closest we can get to Jim Henson as the star he…
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My Winnipeg 2007
I bet guy maddins back is aching from carrying the independent Canadian cinema scene for the past 14 years
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Candyman 2021
Leaving the theater, I thought Nia DaCosta's new iteration on Candyman a messy but ultimately solid work. But the more I sit on the movie, the more I feel it slipping. As a horror movie, Candyman mostly delivers the goods. The various set-pieces are mostly well-executed on a technical level and audiences just looking for some cool kills and horror procedural elements will likely leave satisfied. But the movie also tries to pack so much into 90 minutes that the…
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