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Barbie: Not Actually Kenough
Barbie is brazenly feminist, but it is a white, liberal, gen-X type of feminism that neglects any form of intersectionality or class-analysis.
Kino Oyasumi
late night reviews and rants about film and other media
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Oppenheimer
Navigating a careful line between art-house cinema and one-liner driven Hollywood blockbuster appeal, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer biopic, which contextualizes the Manhattan Project as a mostly early Cold War-era military endeavor tainted by anti-communist paranoia, is highly ambitious, timely, and, in its cinematography, at times nothing short of brilliant.
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Asteroid City
More so than than his previous films, Wes Anderson's newest film, superficially a story-within-a-story focusing on one hand on a ragtag ensemble cast in a retro scifi play, and on the other hand on that play's lead writer and its lead cast, may come over as just a handful of colorful vignettes forming a pastiche of postmodernist cinema.
review · Berlinale
Suzume: Weathering With Your Name
Although a significant improvement over his previous release (the abysmal 2019 Weathering with You), Shinkai is reluctant to deviate from the formula that made Your Name such a success, and I felt that despite all-out nice performances, the film and its emotional payoff is particularly held back by his least memorable protagonist yet.
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Triangle of Sadness: Expected an Ocean and Landed in a Puddle
A shallow, borderline offensive attempt at art-house film and social criticism.