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Micro-Reviews 2024
Collecting Micro-Reviews originally published on Instagram, Mastodon, and Letterboxd.
Viktor Kossakovsky’s 2024 Architecton
Not much to chew on beyond impressive cinematography, music, and sound design.
Wei Shujun’s 河边的错误 [He bian de cuo wu/Mistake(s) by the River]
Welcome to Wei’s postmodern neo-noir period mystery rabbit hole.
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest
An extraordinary movie that is, and should be, deeply disturbing.
Trần Anh Hùng’s ノルウェイの森 [Noruwei no Mori/Norwegian Wood]
An enjoyable movie worthy of a better script.
Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element
A collection of enormously silly adolescent fantasies, but entertaining.
Miyazaki Hayao’s 君たちはどう生きるか [How Do Y’all Live?]
Seven years of development are more than enough for a script to lose focus.
Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days
If, at the end, you don’t know whether to be joyful or sad, you’re in good company.
David Ayer’s The Beekeeper
The exact dose of gratuitously violent popcorn entertainment I was looking for.
![ゴジラ-1.0 [Gojira Mainasu Wan]](https://betweendrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/gojira-1-283x230-1-70x70.png)
Yamazaki Takashi’s『ゴジラ-1.0』[Gojira Mainasu Wan]
Hands down one of the best movies in Tōhō’s Kaijū franchise.