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The Menu 2022
The Menu feels like someone watched Parasite and Midsommar, got inspired, and wrote a first draft of something potentially interesting.
It's a solid watch, but it desperately needed the wit that it thought it had & characters that didn't feel like a means to an end. It just needed more.
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 2022
It not only manages to avoid turning into that annoying guy at the party who won't stop telling you dumber versions of things you already know, it actually comments on that guy, and I appreciate that.
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Don't Look Up 2021
Since Adam McKay said that not liking his film makes you a climate change denier, I like it. It's great. Believe me. It's wonderful. So good. Such satire. Much smart. Wicked funny. Incredibly not annoying. Watch it. Believe me.
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
Utilizing ideas *mostly rooted in French (here's a dirty word) postmodern philosophy, namely, Simulacra and Simulation, and Capitalist Recouperation (aka co-optation, found in The Society of the Spectacle), Lana Wachowski finds a way to deeply interrogate The Matrix as a towering cultural achievement, an artifact, a movie, an incomplete analysis and a critique of society. This essentially makes The Matrix Resurrection a multilayered critique of a critique, and - by extention - a fresh examination of society today (the distinction…
