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Mickey 17 (2025)
He's dying to save mankind.
Filmmaker(s): Bong Joon Ho

Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

Animal Love love story, a very clever and dear love story. I like anything Bong Joon Ho does, but find his social commentary often gets in the way. So, subtract that out here. It has little to do with his overlap of cinematic and story...


Published September 15, 2025
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
There's one in all of us.
Filmmaker(s): Spike Jonze

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.

A Calligraphic Camera Writes the Imagination is a huge success, and I believe that it will reach that status now called "classic," being experienced over and over in whatever ways that classics will in the future. I'll let others note the purity in the way that...


Published August 6, 2025
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
Filmmaker(s): Joe Wright

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

Juxtapositions amazed at how many people think of books as being encompassed by their stories. When that story appears in a film relatively unaltered, purists rejoice. How silly. Stories are there as frames on which all the meaningful stuff is draped. Or so it would be...


Published June 17, 2025
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My Blueberry Nights (2007)
How do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine living without?
Filmmaker(s): Wong Kar-wai

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

Cream Flowing Over Magnolia Blueberries is one of our three greatest living filmmakers. He has transformed imagination for a planet. When real histories are written, artists like this will be appreciated for what they begin, giants compared to politicians who can only try to end things. His...


Published June 17, 2025
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The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Get your hands together for The Triplets of Belleville!
Filmmaker(s): Sylvain Chomet

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.

Dream Stories see. How many stories are within this story. There's the show at the beginning which our heroine watches that gets transformed into her dream about the capture of the grandson she'll never have. When that show comes alive as reality, it gets mirrored back...


Published June 17, 2025
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Filmmaker(s): Roy Andersson

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

Cartoonish this is not cartoonish as the term is commonly used to mean simplified or childish. Instead, I mean it as stained glass artists did to imply the evocation of something by merely providing the outline. Such cartoons were considered magical, giving meaning to something not...


Published June 17, 2025
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
Let the magic begin.
Filmmaker(s): Chris Columbus

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.

Hermione's Mouth a long time, we have been warned about what will happen when a couple large companies own all the news, publicity, publishing and film channels. Now, we have the results, a film product that is as moribund as Microsoft software. In both the...


Published March 12, 2025
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
The rebellion begins.
Filmmaker(s): David Yates

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students to defend themselves against the dark arts.

Nothing Up My Sleeve were previous editions of the franchise that I liked. One had a real rhythm; another leveraged architecture in a truly competent way. I suppose if you are invested in the books, this one advances the story a bit: some few revelations; another...


Published March 11, 2025
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Dark and difficult times lie ahead.
Filmmaker(s): Mike Newell

When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.

Unmagical bottom line is that the first two films engaged us on the sheer visual invention of the magical world. The third film was a good film as a film, architectural, Sculpted rhythm that matched the physical spaces shown. This one fails on both accounts. Oh,...


Published March 11, 2025
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Something evil has returned to Hogwarts!
Filmmaker(s): Chris Columbus

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.

Shakespearian Architecture did not like the first Potter film. Indeed, I've been generally unimpressed by all the manufactured Hollywood spectacles that have been moving through the promotional pipeline. So this one caught me unawares. One element of its craft was done so very well, that...


Published March 7, 2025
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