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Perfect Days 2023
It's been a week since I saw Wim Wender's sublime Perfect Days, and I can't get the movie's visuals and Hirayama's affecting smile out of my head. It's a kind of film that will speak differently to different individuals, and reading about how friends and critics have unpacked it makes me watch it again, and that speaks volumes about how good and personal the film is. I can't wait to go back and spend perfect days with Hirayama again.
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Past Lives 2023
i’m late to writing this review. i’m always late. i’m always hoofing it to catch the train, to catch up in conversations, to catch my heart from leaping out of my chest towards the first person who listens, really listens, to it. i’m a perpetual runner-up who has been single for more than ten years, and i no longer remember what true love feels like. non-delusional love. reciprocal, requited love. Past Lives reminded me when i first watched it almost…
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Poor Things 2023
Poor Things (or The Education of Bella Baxter who pulled the plug on herself to become this new person of substance by learning about polite society, sex, poverty, money, religion, socialism, capitalism, degradation, horror, sadness and the human anatomy).
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Animal 2023
There are at least three different endings that I can think of, that would have prevented me from using THOSE words we helplessly used earlier for Kabir Singh. Problematic and Toxic. And this is just physical violence, there is no discomfort or provocation; "mental violence" as Vanga claims to be one of the film's traits. None of it. It's just more action in blood red. Maine dekha hai, ye sab bahut. As a movie buff, this is cute to my eyes. Par Maza aaya every now and then.
"Sandeep Reddy Vanga is a provocateur... in his head."
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Napoleon 2023
Ridley Scott has never been shy about mocking the infinite smallness of man’s thirst for power (a tendency made all the more enjoyable by the cigar-chomping brio of a director who runs his sets like a rogue general in command of his own private army), but I still wasn’t prepared for the extent to which his latest film utterly humiliates one of history’s most ambitious rulers.
Scott’s decision to reunite with Joaquin Phoenix should’ve been my first clue that “Napoleon”…
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Napoleon 2023
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It's Thanksgiving week, which means there's a new snoozer of a Ridley Scott film to see with your extended family after everyone has loaded up on turkey leftovers. This movie will receive the coveted "it's alright I guess" seal of approval from your uncle or whoever.
I dunno, part of me wants to accept this truncated wiki overview of Napoleon - the man, the strategist, the horn-dog. It has all of that and succeeds at nothing, but it does…
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Limbo 2023
A perfectly named picture shot in a stark and beautiful black and white that underscores the titular nature of the town of Limbo. A vast and desolate landscape that exhibits an uneasy peace between the living and the dead, looking, as it does, haunted by the specters of what once was there and what tries to soldier on in the shadow of that absence. There is also a fair amount of opal mining in the film and people living in…
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