Tsai Ming-Liang's The Hole was sold out at BAM, so I went to see 65 at Alamo (my first trip since before the pandemic). This is so much like a videogame that it even has a sad IPA dad as its main character. Respect to everyone involved for making a mid-tier Cannon movie in 2023, only without sex. When we talk about how cinema is dying what we mean is that there aren't enough kinda shitty but honestly totally fine movies. 65 proves the seventh art is still alive and well.
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