A wistful, melancholic, bittersweet, erotic 21st century romantic dramedy doubling as a coming-of-age epic & tapestriac piecemeal of feminist themes, TWPITW closes Trier’s Oslo Trilogy w. fireworks & dazzling, special performance by Reinsve. 8.7/10.
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Category: Comedy/Romance
Pixar’s Turning Red (2022)
Though it’s ~ruined by ageographic-cringe & a hideous art-style by lazifying Pixar, TR: celebratory project by AAPI representation & complex allegory juxtaposition of mythology, animalism, mixed heritage, taboo-libéré: puberty, menstruation. 6.2/10.
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The Cuphead Show (2022)
Though it’s a style & technical coup-de-grâce any cartoon junkie or historian will gush on by painstaking recreation & celebration of ’30’s Golden Age Fleischer, TCS feels.. plebeian & wrong: goofy faux-vaudeville > dark indie lore/world-build. 5/10.
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Peacemaker (2022)
Though Vigilante is salvageable, PCMR is a cringefest from opening dance credits: bad of Gunnism, distilled on the comprehensively-worst character of 2021’s Squad; toilet bowl crown, desperate forced meta, goofy cheese, DC condescension. 3.2/10.
[category:comedyromance/actionadventure/comic-book-movies-tv,date:2022-01-07,rate:3.2,type:tvshows]
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Don’t Look Up (2021)
The perfect theoretical dosage of farcical satire for 2021 by the comedic genius bhd Ron Burgundy & one of the craziest ensembles in genre history: alarmingly realistic by toxic modern anti-science/vax/climate zeitgeist it hilariously burlesques. 9/10.
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The French Dispatch (2021)
Delightful, honeyed, & candy-coated; a love-letter to the spirit of journalism by lens of its news publication, TFD breathes pure grandiloquence, richly-detailed ocular craftsmanship, wry burlesque, stylish auterist formalism w. godly indie cast. 9.5/10.
[category:comedyromance,date:2021-09-17,rate:9.5,type:movies]
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Annette (2021)
Though its powerful iconographic fantasia of strikingly hyper-manicured Caraxian shots galvanize the eye, a hypnagogic rock-opera of experimentalism in purgatory ~drowning a godly cast of Driver & Cotillard-led indie finesse in minor-keys. 7.5/10.
[category:fantasy/comedyromance/experimental/drama/musicals,date:2021-08-02,rate:7.5,type:movies]
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In The Heights (2021)
A cinematic event of hot authentic latin cultural rejoice, passion, musical dexterity, A/V expressionism, vital dreamer/immigrant story theme exposition, starmaking performances, community, & ethereal joyous energy lighting screen on-fire. 9.2/10.
[category:comedyromance/lgbtq-minority/drama/musicals,date:2021-06-05,rate:9.2,type:movies]
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Loki (2021)
A sybaritic time-travel mystery enigma w. identity, ego, hedonism, megalomaniacal themes, religion allegory, genre diversifcation, rich audiovisual panache, multiverse twist narrative: a synergized apotheosis of the MCU & eponymous trickster. 8.7/10.
[category:actionadventure/science-fiction/fantasy/blockbusters/comedyromance/time-travel/comic-book-movies-tv,date:2021-08-17,rate:8.7,type:tvshows]
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WandaVision+ (2021)
The best MCU project & type of avant-garde innovation we’ve craved by Marvel for 10+ years beyond blockbuster formula, WV+: boldly-stylized CBM-mystery/sci-fi/ comedy/romance/horror/fntsy of ignis ftis, phantasmagoria, TV-nostalgia. 9.7/10.
[category:horror/comedyromance,date:2021-01-02,rate:9.7,type:tvshows]
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