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BLUE EYE SAMURAI 2023
incredibly well crafted visually, but some really amateurish choices on a narrative and thematic level raised my eyebrows enough to make me forgo my usual indifference to storycraft provided the acumen of the artists is high enough: there are some things i can’t handwave away.
watching all 8 episodes really makes me realize the limitations of these students of john wick thought. there’s only so many times you can watch a bushido-worshipping proto-human mow through ‘hordes’ of nameless faceless enemies…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
as a diligent student of denis villeneuve thought, i treat every new movie of his as a very special occasion. ever since arrival, i have never failed to watch any of his films on opening night and they have never failed to amaze me. this one is of course no exception, but i now feel confident enough in his language to actually parse what i’m seeing lucidly, instead of attending them like church, merely hoping to understand.
a religious experience is…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
probably the most reactionary spider-man story i’ve ever seen, even counting this week’s amazing #26. i disobeyed every impulse guiding me away from watching this, against my better judgement, and was thoroughly disappointed. i didn’t think it was possible for anything under the sun to cheapen my opinion of the first spider-verse but this more than did it. only the depth of my respect for the audio/visual craft (which i won’t waste any more space elaborating on) that went into…
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Barbie 2023
even greta gerwig’s genius couldn’t prevent mattel from successfully realizing probably the most effective piece of corporate mythology in cinema history. fully depicting and moreover getting the audience to fully buy into a uniquely mattel-ian vision of the world where any spontaneous critiques of it that occur can be acknowledged, confronted, successfully deprogrammed, and subsumed— a barbie world full of barbie girls that perpetuates itself endlessly. that it does this while still managing to be a thoroughly entertaining and expertly…