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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood 2022
Falling asleep during the literal moon landing…… I felt that.
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All My Friends Hate Me 2021
The best representation of social anxiety I’ve ever seen. Like, scary relatable. All My Friends Hate Me doesn’t always succeed as a stand-alone horror or comedy (especially in the so-so final act), but its razor-sharp blend of everyone’s-out-to-get-me paranoia and existential dread gets under your skin early and often and stays there long after the credits roll. An excellent entry in ‘Hell is Other People’ cinema.
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Scream 2022
Saw this in cinemas last month and was feeling a light 6, but I’ve since watched Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre and rewatched Halloween (2018) and my girl Mindy was SO on the ball with her ‘requel’ hypothesis that I have no choice but to upgrade this to a 7. Also, watching Jenna Ortega act circles around everyone was just as entertaining the second time around – THE gen z scream queen!
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Turning Red 2022
This was cute, but also very representative of what’s been disappointing about Pixar’s recent slate of movies. Luca, Soul, and Toy Story 4 were all excellent – there’s just now this tendency to introduce an ‘obstacle’ in the middle act that re-shapes the rest of the film and stunts much of the thematic development.
In Luca it was the bike race, in Soul it was the body swap, and in Turning Red it’s the concert tickets. In all three instances,…
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CODA 2021
It would be all too easy to be cynical about CODA given how closely it sticks to genre conventions and clichés, but it's so heartfelt and well-meaning that you just can't help but fall in love with it. There's never any doubt about where the story is going, but what better vehicle to introduce audiences to the lived experiences of an underrepresented community than the classic family drama/coming of age?
Definitive proof that you don't need to rock the boat to make a great movie – just put some deaf people in it!
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The Last Duel 2021
Babe wake up, blonde Ben Affleck just dropped.
Enjoyed this! Very obviously a story about the lies men tell themselves and the world to paper over the horrors they inflict on women, but also a comment on the at once breathless catharsis and depressing inevitability of violence in a society ruled by machismo. Post-duel clarity.
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