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Perfect Days
In Perfect Days, an aging restroom cleaner finds daily, fleeting moments of happiness through a mindful awareness of beauty in chance encounters and his temporal surroundings, yet can never truly hide a deep underlying sadness.
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Evil Does Not Exist
Starting of as a slow, contemplative exploration of a small, rural community faced with an ecological disruption at the hands of an ill-planned and predatory development project, Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist is tense, layered and never overexplains itself.
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Monster
Monster, the newest film by one of Japan's finest contemporary directors, is, as always, another treat in the classic Kore-eda social drama style.
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The Boy and The Heron
At times a whimsical adventure, The Boy and the Heron is fundamentally about dealing with grief, trauma and human agency.
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Blue Giant
Blue Giant, an animated adaption of the eponymous graphic novel chronicling the rise of a starting Jazz musician, is a wonderful and sometimes moving love letter to Jazz, elevated by a brilliant soundtrack composed and performed by the ever so talented Uehara Hiromi.
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Killers of The Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese's newest film, the epic true crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon, is an absolute highlight in an already unparalleled career.
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Past Lives: Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day
Past Lives, doesn't pack any surprises in its storytelling but there's a kind of melancholic poetry to its visual language that I haven't seen since the 'Before' Trilogy. Quite a strong debut for its director Celine Song, but it doesn't come without caveats.
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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.
