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TÁR 2022
Edit: these thoughts were super loose but I sat down and sort of put it all together with a little more polish, check it out: review
“You must in fact stand before the public and god and obliterate yourself”Incredible, incredible stuff. Hung on almost every line. So prodding and sinister, I just love these kinds of dramas. Mistakenly, I expected it would veer into obvious, explosive moments of tyranny like There Will be Blood or Whiplash, but Field makes…
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022
Me when I'm in an evil-off and my competition is the Sackler family. The unexpected, explosive intersection of outsider art and intuitional sins. In a year full of vaguely performative eat the rich type "social commentary" films, Poitras' is the first with something actually real and urgent to say. Gonna be shouting its gospel from the top of my lungs for the next few weeks or so.
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The Fabelmans 2022
Licorice Pizza found dead, wrapped in 35 mm
This is it, this is it guys
I’m absolutely gushing right now. Images, images, so many images swirling around in my brain and it’s starting to leak all out. The joke where the Christian girl implies Sammy is Jesus is so real because Spielberg is nothing short of divine.
I’m not looking forward to the cage match between Cate Blanchett and Michelle Williams can’t we just make two awards :(((
DAVID LYNCH I’M GOING TO GIVE YOU A BIG KISS!!!!!!