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Shepherd 2021
Very prettily shot and well-acted, but this is such an unsatisfying movie, both in that it truly doesn't seem to matter what (if anything) in the movie is real, and in that the suffering and punishment here so obviously extends to characters who don't deserve it — and who end up pretty thoroughly disregarded by the story, as if the only point to their lives was suffering to make the protagonist more wretched.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
1) Watch this movie without watching the trailers first. They give away a ton of things that are more fun to experience in the moment.
2) Seriously, go in as unspoiled as possible. If you like martial-arts movies, absurdist comedy, the big heady "what is reality" philosophical backgrounding of The Matrix, or just surprises, you'll be fine, and it's much more exciting to see how those surprises unfold.
3) This is the most surprising movie I've seen since The Matrix,…
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Get Out 2017
This movie is funny. This movie is political. This movie is intelligent and wicked and very, very calculated. This movie is sometimes visually stunning, and impeccably acted.
But mostly, it's scary as hell.
For the love of cinema, do not watch the spoilery-ass trailers. Do not read any reviews unless you trust the reviewers to be circumspect about giving away the plot. Go in as blind as possible and just let the story's surprises unfold. Assuming you're okay with scary…
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Call Me by Your Name 2017
Sign me up as the apostate that just doesn't appreciate this one, that doesn't really understand why a long, rambling, sleepy movie about a disconnected, disaffected, insanely rich and privileged teenager moping around until he gets laid is so moving to people. There are better romances, better gay coming-of-age movies, better summer-fling stories, and movies where I don't get really really distracted by watching a dude gut a peach in his bed with his bare hands and then fuck it, making an immense mess for someone else to clean up. I will fight the world on this one.
