Posts tagged with ‘film’

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    Brief Thoughts: Wings of Desire (1987)

    First viewing of Wim Wenders’ WINGS OF DESIRE; a poem of a movie that makes of its audience angels...

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    Brief Thoughts: Burning (2018)

    Lee Chang-dong’s BURNING brought to mind no less than Leatherface’s twirl through the golden hour in THE TEXAS CHAIN...

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    Brief Thoughts: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

    SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE is one of the best superhero movies I’ve ever seen, and one of the most...

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    Brief Thoughts: Halloween (2018)

    Went to the movies for David Gordon Green’s new HALLOWEEN to cheer myself up. After all, a cinematic manifestation...

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    Brief Thoughts: First Man (2018)

    Damien Chazelle’s FIRST MAN paints Armstrong’s ascent to the Moon as an escape from grief and familial responsibility, the...

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    Brief Thoughts: You Were Never Really Here (2017)

    Lynne Ramsay’s YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE: the plot of a pulpy action thriller subsumed into a hypnotic meditation...

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    Brief Thoughts: Hereditary

    HEREDITARY is a near-masterpiece, and falls short because its use of grief and familial trauma as fuel for a...

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    Brief Thoughts: Solo

    SOLO could have been an Ocean’s 11 in space, but shoves aside its tantalizing heist movie aspirations for rushed...

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    Brief Thoughts: Deadpool 2

    DEADPOOL 2 is the kind of movie that has dudes in the theatre competitively repeating every joke out loud...

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    Brief Thoughts: The Death of Stalin (2017)

    THE DEATH OF STALIN is a canny portrait of evil as men (mostly, in this case) desperately competing to...

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