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Past Lives 2023
Always been an advocate for lengthening childhood flashback scenes that happen to be the sole emotional core of the movie. Fleshing out those scenes would’ve made the ending even more impactful, though often times the heartbreaks in life happen as simply as someone you care about moving far away and you never see them again (until of course Mark Zuckerberg decided to go Heisenberg mode). It’s a romance certainly, but it’s actually a friendship movie first and foremost. The lengths…
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Om Shanti Om 2007
My heart says it’s five stars but I can’t let nostalgia fully blind me. It absolutely holds up, even if you didn’t catch it in theaters back in 2007 (I was 8, ‘twas my Empire Strikes Back moment). The first half is absolutely five stars though, an absolute knockout masterpiece of Bollywood satire, comedy, romance and tragedy (I’m not even kidding, the stuff with Shreyas Talpade is right up there with the Cliff and Rick bromance in Once Upon a Time…
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The Green Knight 2021
Unbelievably disappointing. Like many, I had the highest of hopes, as its glorious trailer made it out to be The Lord of the Rings meets Guillermo Del Toro, but I couldn’t have been more painfully wrong if I had tried. I don’t know much about the story it’s adapted from so I can’t comment on how accurate this version is historically or what they changed, all I’m looking at is how it works as a narrative film. Let’s get the only positive…
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Spencer 2021
A film I was so desperate to immerse myself in but couldn’t due to elements that should’ve worked in its favor. Spencer’s magical realism was supposed to be a portal into Princess Diana’s psyche, instead it applies fog to the central plot and makes it a story of her losing her marbles (in a way, quite literally) when the strongest parts of the film were her playing with her young sons at the time, Prince William and Prince Harry. Similar to…
