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Pier Kids: The Life 2019
T/F 2020
Rambly and incoherent in the worst ways. Poorly edited, not well signposted, and way too long. Great immersive 1st person filmmaking in the first half suddenly stops and the cold, distant gaze that picks up from there is inherently inhumane and unrelatable. There is a powerful documentary hidden among these clips, but you will have to be the one to find it.
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Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick 2013
whats your origin tale
lame, weak, awkward, sets up so much but didn't cash in enough
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The Goldfinch 2019
Who do I have to blow to get a cup of coffee around here?!
More a collection of moode than a narrative, and bloated beyond recognition but also hollow, devoid of any meaning. "Life is fragile," really, that's all? I haven't read the book, which by all accounts was phenomenal, but I can only imagine the pain of reading it and then watching this adaptation. Insufferable. To go from Pulitzer prize for literature to here must make this among the…