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Soul 2020

★★★½ Watched by EricTheRed 25 Dec 2020

All I wanted for the holidays was to see a hedge fund manager have an existential crisis about his life's "work" and go into a panic-induced frenzy at the office. Wish granted. Love the abstractions here (which become literalized in The Great Before's cubist overlords), but not everyone's dad is Michael Haneke, so I have to wonder whose children this was intended to reach. Either way, my nieces will finally know the work of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and that truly is a Christmas miracle!
(This film gets librarians like few others.)
The Jesus Rolls 2019

★★★½ Watched by EricTheRed 01 Aug 2020 2

Had this not been connected to the Coens' film, I'm guessing you all would have been much more receptive. Trust: don't suffocate the legacy of a comedy masterpiece by acting like anything else (especially that which has been so lovingly rendered by an original cast member) is somehow scorched earth. Turturro's film could have easily been a half-assed quasi-sequel about Jesus "The Pederast" Quintana bumbling around in the greater Lebowski universe, but he smartly opted out of that death trap…