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Genre: Sci-Fi
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Project Hail Mary
The film plays fast and loose with the science stuff – but it does so in service to an emotional narrative about unlikely friendship, teamwork, and self-sacrifice. The film squarely lands the emotional beats that matter, finding much humor and heart in them. The story that emerges is a resonant one for today’s divided times.
The film plays fast and loose with the science stuff – but it does so in service to an emotional narrative about unlikely friendship, teamwork, and self-sacrifice. The film squarely lands the emotional beats that matter, finding much humor and heart in them. The story that emerges is a resonant one for today’s divided times.
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Poor Things
I find Yorgos Lanthimos to be a fascinating filmmaker, although it’s generally difficult to say that one “loves” his movies. His films are satirical and often bleak, but also frequently funny — in a painful kind of way. He is sharp observer of social customs and human interaction, and he seems to enjoy making the kinds of stories where poor ordinary souls are caught in absurd situations, without realizing how absurd their situations are. In his movies, the absurd is commonplace, and much of the satirical humor comes from the way people accept the strangest of occurrences as simply “the…
I find Yorgos Lanthimos to be a fascinating filmmaker, although it’s generally difficult to say that one “loves” his movies. His films are satirical and often bleak, but also frequently funny — in a painful kind of way. He is sharp observer of social customs and human interaction, and he seems to enjoy making the kinds of stories where poor ordinary souls are caught in absurd situations, without realizing how absurd their situations are. In his movies, the absurd is commonplace, and much of the satirical humor comes from the way people accept the strangest of occurrences as simply “the…
