I feel like the flaws with this are obvious (the coloring is so weird and bad, some of the editing is a miss, some of the dialogue is a bit on the nose (though I haven't read the book so)), but I really loved this one. I cried maybe 60% of it. "haha". Really engages with the idea of self-determination and dialogue in a way I haven't seen onscreen much. A movie I'll be thinking about for a long time even if I can very much recognize its shortcomings
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical 2022
Cutting both Telly and Loud is unforgivable, frankly. Some of the additions/plot changes don't really work, but overall a fun adaptation that gets create with the shift in mediums.
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Eighth Grade 2018
this is an automatic new favorite. i really don't think i've laughed or cried this hard at a movie in months. here are bullet point thoughts : wept through the final 30 minutes - real tough to watch in a transitional period of life. the way it captures anxiety; the presence of the shooter drill as "background noise" flawlessly points to the permeating anxiety and risk of being young in the 2010s... while she's trying to understand her sexuality mediated…
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White Noise 2022
Mostly I'm just mad Charlie Kaufman didn't direct this instead .... or boots riley..... noah baumbach i like your movies but this type of satire just doesn't seem like ur bag bb....
