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  The Matrix Resurrections 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Jan 2022 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  “She believed in me… it’s my turn to believe in her”

  
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  The opening shot is a reflection in a puddle: a mirror. In seconds it’s shattered by the stomping of bootsteps. The Matrix Resurrections isn’t just a look-back or a simple self-reflection, it’s something to look at in a new way, from different angles. I stand by that this is a perfect companion/pairing with Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth, in the way that they’re both dense texts…

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  Youth Without Youth 2007

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Oct 2021 2

  "Where do you want me to put the third rose?"

  
  
  

  From the opening second of its runtime, Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth blurs the lines of reality by distorting imagery of time and love using dreamlike visuals. This is probably the most formally ambitious film I've seen from Coppola, as he shifts POVs, generates dreamlike imagery, distorts sound, and pads the runtime with dream sequences and spiritual visions. Another thing I noticed (I've also noticed this in other post-70s…

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  Knock at the Cabin 2023

  Watched 02 Feb 2023 3

  I believe you

  I believe in M. Night Shyamalan, I believe in Dave Bautista, and I believe 2023 will be a great year for movies. Loved, loved, loved this. Fantastic

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  Unbreakable 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Feb 2023 2

  "When you woke up this morning... Was it still there? The sadness?"
  

  On finding yourself, your place. As always with Shyamalan, seeing is believing. Perfect and has aged beautifully

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  Avatar: The Way of Water 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Dec 2022 3

  "Life to death. Darkness to light."

  
  Monumental. A flawless synthesis of the first film's strengths (Cameron's patient direction letting you see everything, concise, economical, and weighted action with impeccable geography, mind-melting and immersive visual effects and performance capture), and the strengths of the rest of Cameron's oeuvre (gun action of Aliens, disaster filmmaking of Titanic, spiritual humanism of The Abyss, familial themes in Terminator 2 and Aliens). An immensely confident film, not only because it exudes confidence from Cameron himself,…

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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2023 2

  "You must, in fact, stand in front of the public and God and obliterate yourself."

  
  Will begin with saying that Blanchett, the sound design, the editing, and the score are all phenomenal.

  Maybe my favourite use of mirrors in a film outside of Coppola. As Lydia looks within the mirror, she neglects the truth in front of her, and focuses on the image of herself she desires. In this sense, it feels like other key films that reckon with modernity…