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"Favorite Films" my fave of each of the last four years (h/t Tim Hoiland).
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Frybread Face and Me 2023
What a beautiful movie.
It’s not fair to either movie to compare them, but I’m going to do it anyway: this movie provides the perspective that I found myself wishing I was getting more of in Killers of the Flower Moon. Yes, Scorsese’s film is about the Osage Nation in the 1920s. This is about a single Navajo family in the 90s. But what this movie offers is sustained attention to the traditions, the tragedies, the generational heartache, and the…
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023
The rare inverse of the typical scenario where you get prequels that fill in backstory you never needed and provide origin stories you wish you never had. This one - the best of the hunger games movies by some margin - turns the hunger games series itself into the thing you wish never existed. There remains what I can only describe as a YA sheen to this that is probably unavoidable: a handsomeness to the young actors that undermines some…
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La La Land 2016
I've taken all of your criticisms into account and have determined that you're all wrong.
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