This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Challengers 2024
i love the symmetry. i love the contrast in pace. i love that every interaction has the tension of an elastic band stretching out and snapping back into place. the camera cuts between the three of them in whatever configuration, but it’s only inevitable that they’ll soon occupy the same frame.
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Challengers 2024
it’s remarkable that luca guadagnino finds tennis boring to watch because i have never seen the sport filmed with such energy and reverence. but that’s also precisely why he’s perfect for challengers – who better than an outsider to see tennis for what it is. it’s a conversation, it’s about judgement, it’s observation. so many of luca’s films are about looking, no wonder he can infuse so much tension and meaning into the simple act of the crowd tracking the…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
there’s something really striking in the weaponisation of nostalgia – how it’s presented not as a source of fond remembrance, but as an alienating force. there’s nothing comforting about being reminded of how much better things used to be.
i’m always pro-cinemas of course but this is a ride with good headphones on
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Nobody Knows 2004
to get performances this delicate and natural and heartbreaking from children, remarkable.
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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement 2004
universal princess diaries childhood experience was trying to mattress surf down the stairs
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