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Cha Cha Real Smooth 2022
The self-obsessed filmmaking reveals more about what it's like to be in your early 20s than the narrative does. Too precious for me, and too false.
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A Well Spent Life 1971
Don't you see what's happening now? Everything's a fast, fast time. Everything's moving in a fast motion now.
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Mank 2020
A strange, unsatisfying combination of elements. Sound design that imitates old films, but is somehow less intelligible than the most neglected, crackling-with-age movies I've recorded from TCM (perhaps we're meant to feel that the mic was hidden at the bottom of one of Mank's Seconal bottles), an aspect ratio and lighting that hearkens to Cold War-era black & white, faux damage to the film stock that bookends scenes like a quaint afterthought, a frequently jazzy score with the generic zip that…
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Turning Red 2022
The JanSport backpack, the stick-on earrings, the mix CDs, the pads, the perfectionism, the cluttered secrets under the bed, the choreographed dances with friends, the tense relationship with a mother who just wanted to protect me. I lived it all.
