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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★

  • Shin Kamen Rider

    ★★★★

  • Good Bye Lenin!

    ★★★

  • In the Cut

    ★★★½

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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★

    Havoc in the Spider-Verse. Five years after its predecessor exploded onto the scene, Across the Spider-Verse is like the (somewhat overly) ambitious follow-up album that expands upon every idea, central character beat, visualization, and allusive reference point to the extreme. If Into the Spider-Verse is the first true comic book movie, this is the first post-comic book movie, like speed reading Vol. 1 of the Miles Morales omnibus to an Otoboke Beaver album. But in addition to the pastel paint…

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★★

    Shut up and turn it up.

    A paint-splattered mixtape of Marvel's greatest hits, chopped and screwed with the B-sides and the one-off gimmicks. It's a vibrant collision of our greatest superhero/es with their plentiful adaptations and iterations. The inspiration points here are strewn across decades of movies, video games, and most especially cartoons. Not only does it level up the panels-within-panels, dynamic action, visual gags, making it the first and so far only comic book movie, but it digs deep…

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  • Shin Kamen Rider

    Shin Kamen Rider

    ★★★★

    Can you feel the wind, Hongo?

    What does a hero save us from? It's a question you might ask if you were, say, an idealistic but dumb mad scientist in a movie like Shin Kamen Rider, although hopefully sometime before you spend your whole career engineering them. "Bad guys," would make a pretty good answer, but here, all the nasties are a clear mirror image to the virtuous bug-eyed savior. They're all experiments gone awry, trying in vain to achieve…

  • Finding Nemo

    Finding Nemo

    ★★★★½

    One of Pixar's very finest, and for years my favorite of that entire fabled canon. Finding Nemo is like the studio's 21st century update on Bambi, a boldly colorful technical knockout that blends nature documentary detail with saturated cartoon fantasy to tremendous ends. It's a sharper drama about fatherhood than anything ever cooked up at Disney, and really it would go toe-to-toe with most adult dramas with similar themes about learning to let go. That it is a brisk, hilarious…

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  • Tomboy

    Tomboy

    ★★★★½

    JEANNE IS THE MOST PRECIOUS CREATURE ON THIS EARTH, AND I WOULD LAY MY LIFE DOWN FOR HER. MY LIFE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

  • The Living End

    The Living End

    ★★★★

    ✔️ Be gay
    ✔️ Do crimes
    ✔️ Go into severe depression for two weeks when Echo and the Bunnymen break up

    Gregg Araki movies make me swoon. Existentialism has never been steamier, nor more seething. A blistering, essential piece of 90s New Queer Cinema.