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  • Almost Famous

    ★★★★½

  • Y2K

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  • The Iron Giant

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  • Our Little Secret

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  • Almost Famous

    Almost Famous 2000

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Dec 2024

    Almost Famous is certainly a cool movie about the always elusive 70s-rock brand of coolness, with many well-filmed shots of concert footage and other immersive period moments. But what’s really great about it is the layer underneath: this is a 3-person drama enacted with subtle, perfectly crafted interactions. As each plays off each other, they enact the inner character that we know all along is inside, and the resulting growth for all of them is quite satisfying for a somewhat…

  • Y2K

    Y2K 2024

    ★½ Watched 09 Dec 2024

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    A24 Film #156

    Look, I wasn’t expecting this to be brilliant, and I don’t hate bad, fun movies on principle. But extreme unevenness and recycled material masquerading as an A24-branded movie are less forgivable.

    It’s a shame, because Y2K actually starts out okay. I laughed a few times in the first third, and I didn’t hate the crass Superbad/Booksmart-type of approach that opens the movie. Sure, it’s unoriginal, but it’s saved by the charm of Hunt for the Wilderpeople’s Julian…

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  • The Iron Giant

    The Iron Giant 1999

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 03 Dec 2024 2

    Though the film’s humor can be a tad juvenile on occasion, the heart-melting seriousness of The Iron Giant quickly squashes its minor flaws in the middle. A brilliant Cold War parable with nostalgic and timeless vibes, this essential childhood staple could not be more significant to my growth as a human. I wish it held up just a bit better nowadays, but The Iron Giant is a significant transition point between the Japanese animation giants like Hayao Miyazaki and the…

  • Our Little Secret

    Our Little Secret 2024

    ★★ Watched 01 Dec 2024

    I’ll admit, Our Little Secret has better production values and direction than expected under the professional hand of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’s Stephen Herek, but there is ultimately not much to distinguish it from the “Hallmark Channel” crowd. It’s perfectly tailored for maximum dramatic effect, exquisitely designed with each little piece climaxing in a soap opera tower of cards, but the parts that drag it down are far too great. What is with the ridiculous plot framing of what leads…

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs 2024

    ★★★½ Watched 14 Jul 2024 1

    I should have known not to have excessive expectations about Oz Perkins, but he still turned in perhaps his best movie here (the bar was set low in my opinion).

    Like all of his movies, the ideas are there, and only an unsatisfactory conclusion undoes them. He still relies on pretentious horror filmmaking techniques that most other A24-brand filmmakers have better utilized, but I’m a sucker for them; the eerie, constantly churning atmosphere of Longlegs reaches a surreal, almost otherworldly…

  • Civil War

    Civil War 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 12 Apr 2024

    A24 Film #145

    A good war movie (as in, anti-war) and a great press movie, Civil War has doubled the inflammatory elements from Men, but this film has a deeper core that I want to continue to mine. It’s really not about war much at all, certainly not about U.S. politics specifically or with any complex significance. What matters here is that this movie is about people, and how humans interact with each other and themselves in the face of…

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