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Your personal guide to good opinions about movies.
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Aesthetic politics in The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
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Miyazaki’s reckoning with beauty and fascism is depicted with more depth in this documentary than in his own The Wind Rises.
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Obligatory praise for 2001
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Kubrick’s canonized magnum opus spells great and terrible things for the future which humanity is building for itself.
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Hollywood fascism and Barton Fink
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The Coens portray various forms of disingenuous malice within the American entertainment industry through two powerhouse lead performances.
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Night is Short, Walk On Girl is a pleasant nightmare movie
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Plot synopsis has never been more irrelevant than with Masaaki Yuasa’s colours-and-shapes masterpiece.
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The Batman finally makes it cool to be dark and gritty
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Armed with an almost monochromatic flame colour palette and the dulcet tones of Kurt Cobain, Matt Reeves’ take on a despondent Gotham is a rousing spectacle.
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Jacques Tati inimitably satirizes the waste of industrialism in PlayTime
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Sound and dimension are used to their fullest extent to disorient Monsieur Hulot, as well as the audience, in the intricate metropolis of this macroscopic comedy.
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Brazil and the capitalist hellscape that it shamelessly mocks
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Through astounding spectacle, Terry Gilliam projects his truly original, dystopian nightmares to the screen.
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War’s torment in Grave of the Fireflies
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Isao Takahata’s least hopeful movie allows its audience to experience a piece of the inaccessible lives of those devastated by warfare.
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We must laugh at Dr. Strangelove to avoid crying for it
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Kubrick directs a darkly comic paranoid farce about humanity’s impending nuclear annihilation at the hands of military bureaucracy.
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A Few Good Men and the Sorkin problem
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Rob Reiner directs this courtroom drama with eager intensity, yet the screenplay misfires when faced with opportunities to challenge American patriotism.