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Extremely resistible and yet... not.

For The Reveal:

thereveal.substack.com/p/in-review-kimi-marry-me

Incredible dancing, quality kills.

Farhadi's best since A Separation, and on the same level. There may be better filmmakers right now, but there's no better dramatist than him.

Incredible. Also: A smart director could tweak this into the most devastating Americanization ever.

I gave this picture a “C” back in the day for AVC. I’ve suspected for a while that I missed the boat on it. More on Wednesday at thereveal.substack.com.

Watched for the first part of our three-part Macbeth discussion on The Reveal (thereveal.substack.com). Why doesn't this film have more of a rep? There's a lot of brilliant touches here.

Was quite captivated by the film until I got to the end and had a BURN AFTER READING moment. “What have we learned, Palmer?”

All three segments are excellent, but wow that second one. I'll be thinking about that for a long time.

Maybe just a four-star movie, but I've added the extra half-star because I assume I will watch it dozens of times before I die.

"And the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining." So much to love about a movie that sends the audience out with a thought like this. Eight years old and it feels centuries away from what Hollywood has become.

I'm not even joking when I say this movie is an existential crisis for Hollywood and everyone involved in making it.

Brief review here: thereveal.substack.com/p/in-review-passing-belfast-red-notice

Watched again for Guardian anniversary piece. Spielberg gets you from frame one of this thing.