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Zootopia 2016
“Never let em see that they get to you.”
'Zootopia' may not be an absolutely flawless screenplay (Judy starts up a rusty old subway train out of literally nowhere; if Night Howlers are so dangerous, why are Judy's parents planting them?), but what it lacks in flawless plot mechanics it more than makes up for in being perhaps the most well-thought-out overall story and concept to ever come out of Disney Animation. I think a few other films from the…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies 2022
“Check… her… texts.”
What stunned me most about this film is how intelligent and emotionally involving it is, even if the target of its satire is fairly obvious.
Its intelligence shines through in the many levels it unexpectedly mines and works on. Although some character development is accomplished rather quickly in order to fast-track the film’s central whodunnit, that speed works in the satire’s favor because ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ is satirizing hypocritical millennial and gen-z tendencies towards immediate judgement and…
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