Too long, has the same boring world building as the original, and the high frame rate was distracting, but damn that was some good Movie Magic!!
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Fire Island 2022
Far better than it has any need to be. It's hilarious, has great politics, and only minimal plot contrivences that haunt the genre.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Fails to fully explore s few themed and slightly too long, but a great movie overall.
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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga 2020
I don't understand how it was possible to make a Will Ferrell movie about Eurovision that wasn't funny
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No Country for Old Men 2007
Objectively the best Cohen brothers movie whilist being the least enjoyable to watch
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
Matrix Resurrections was fantastic! I usually can't stand the recent trend of overly self-aware soft-reboots, but since Revolutions was so bad navelgazeyness is precisely what the series needed to retcon (or at better explain) 3's awful ending. Thus even within the narrow confines of in-universe scifi world building Matrix Resurrections was a massive net positive for the series (eg all the solarpunk stuff, machine coexistence, and Zion/Io governmental developments), and on the meta-level I loved its braven SJW politics and…
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The Many Saints of Newark 2021
Just ok; it's impeccably acted and provides a much less egregious take on fan service than the usual Han Solo's Dice prequel fare, but ultimately fails to justify its existence. Its main redeeming quality is that it pays more attention to the effects of organized crime on the black experience – something that was conspicuously absent from the series, and is an encouraging reminder of how we've come culturally the last 15 years.
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