Category: Criticism
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beyond the douchbaggery of dogs: attentional guideropes and negative worldbuilding in Flow
I will stop overthinking animated movies aimed at children when people stop making animated movies for children set in worlds with a crazy amount of implicit but unaddressed questions embedded in them.
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it also is the thing it pokes fun at
This reads to me like one of the few reviews written by someone who actually saw the same movie as me.
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I surrendered to the strangeness, and the strangeness started to make sense
Now, I’m not about to start listening to tapes again any time soon (though I did rescue a rather handsome wood-cheeked Akai tape deck from the miljörum a couple years back)… and there ain’t no one writing songs about my olive press, either.
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this is all I know and all I dream
I saw Megalopolis the week before last and wanted to write about it, but—rather pathetically, perhaps—flinched off doing so.
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a piece of entertainment that reflects the world, in both its shadows and its light
Who will monster-hunt the monster-hunters?