AFlickering
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| 3 36% | To the Stars (2020) - Rated 04 Aug 2024
"individual scenes have enough shading and sweetness that they merely feel well-worn rather than excruciatingly tropey, but if you told me this was a '90s remake of a '50s issues drama i would believe you, and nobody needs that shit in 2024. speaking of which, i also didn't need to see buster bluth as an abusive conservative dad, that's some actual nightmare fuel."
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| 4 55% | The Truth (2019) - Rated 04 Aug 2024
"koreeda trying his hand at a late assayas movie, trading off a little ambition and smugness for greater sincerity and generosity. hawke plays this completely disposable side-character that only he could play and it's great, give me a goofy hangout movie about him wiling away the days at his painfully french in-laws' please."
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| 5 73% | Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) - Rated 04 Aug 2024
"low ceiling stuff perhaps, with a few implausible indie quirks and an easily summarised perspective i don't feel challenged by, but i love how it captures travelling with no safety net on no sleep (a feeling i unfortunately know well). great sense of place and time, touching central performances, and while the allegations of didacticism and miserablism may not be wholly incorrect i do find them harsh given how understated and implied this is compared to most american indies."
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| 7 94% | Survival Skills (2020) - Rated 03 Aug 2024
"best spoof in ages. laughed out loud numerous times. had to pause it repeatedly from discomfort. would buy the soundtrack. vayu o'donnell is incredible for a guy who's never appeared in anything notable in his life. guaranteed cult classic status in a couple of decades."
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| 4 55% | Onward (2020) - Rated 03 Aug 2024
"postmodernity is a source of great fear and grief for some (let's call them... the right) and a liberating rebirth for others (the left); it's all about absent Fathers and how to replace them, if at all. while this film doesn't avoid the suspect decision-making and muddled subplots that plague later pixar, the core is comfortingly nuanced and unconditionally empathic about this struggle, and the decision to stage the final Revelation from afar shows that they've still kinda sorta got it."
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| 2 17% | Bacurau (2019) - Rated 03 Aug 2024
"it was already a pretty tryhard mixed bag, but this really takes a nosedive for me when udo's crew turns up. it's almost as bad as when the english language bits start in squid game, and nothing is that bad."
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| 6 86% | First Cow (2020) - Rated 19 Jul 2024
"it's ultimately *just* a buddy movie, and can become both strained and vague when trying to make larger points about capitalism (reichardt has never been as subtle or incisive at political commentary as her fans would have you believe)... but WHAT a buddy movie. probably my favourite of her work outside the third segment of CERTAIN WOMEN."
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| 3 36% | The Way Back (2020) - Rated 19 Jul 2024
"it does at the very least appear to be the most honest performance of ben affleck's career."
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| 3 36% | Straight Up (2019) - Rated 19 Jul 2024
"the snappy gilmore girls dialogue works on a micro level but this frustrates on the macro, smart enough to diagnose millennial performativity but not to escape it. the cloying climax confirms it just wants to be a cute romcom, not a thorny thing about a solipsistic generation, fluid sexuality, asexuality, post-traumatic mental illness, a survivor endorsing rape jokes, etc--fine, but stop pretending. findlay in particular is betrayed multiple times by a plot that asks her to be dumb and fickle."
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| 3 36% | Tread (2020) - Rated 18 Jul 2024
"somebody took the phrase "level the playing field" a little too literally... also, there's something extremely fucking funny about how this family is painted as greedy supervillains by heemeyer for a solid 20 minutes, and then you cut to these derpy brothers slouching around finishing one another's sentences."
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