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Movie reviews at micahrickard.com | published at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Think Christian, Christ and Pop Culture, and Ekstasis. Freelance writer and film critic by night. Aerospace engineer by day. (Home) bartender by weekend. Avid reader by freetime.
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Last night's rewatch confirmed it—ASTEROID CITY is a top 3 Wes Anderson. So dense, maybe his sharpest dialogue ever, and filled with oddball choices that bat 1.000 for me.

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Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...

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It's official. I'm JEANNE DIELMAN pilled

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Chore day par excellence—filed taxes, made soup, gonna go sit in a dark theater and watch JEANNE DIELMAN.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Chore day par excellence—filed taxes, made soup, gonna go sit in a dark theater and watch JEANNE DIELMAN.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I think near-constantly lately about how the definition of “power” is the ability to define reality

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Bartees Strange days

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Just finished watching THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA and it has left me with one crucial question—So how many movies end with an image of a baby in space?

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Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

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I can't think of the last film I saw that was so aware of itself as an object as THE BRUTALIST is. That may not work for all, but I was enthralled by the act of creation that the movie is (and is about). Wrote some thoughts on it for TC:

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As it turns out, there's no line for the office microwave when you eat lunch at 3:30

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from nick cave’s newsletter yesterday:

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NEW: @usccbofficial.bsky.social issues statement that appears to be — intentional or otherwise — a de facto response to Vance's comments below (which are inaccurate: religious groups resettle refugees, which are legal immigrants). USCCB says their work is "faithful to the teaching of Jesus Christ."

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THE BRUTALIST's deconstructive approach got me thinking about Hernan Diaz's novel Trust and another recent favorite of mine, Todd Field's TÁR www.micahrickard.com/film/the-bru...

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I'm curious about a less obvious question: what are people excited about / pleasantly surprised by in the oscars nominations?

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THE BRUTALIST's deconstructive approach got me thinking about Hernan Diaz's novel Trust and another recent favorite of mine, Todd Field's TÁR www.micahrickard.com/film/the-bru...

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Lemon, it’s January

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I've watched a lot of pretty brutal movies in my time, but Brady Corbet's...

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This is the truth

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Gotta get me a good dowsing rod

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Touble til the robins come

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What I need is a 3+ hour movie with an intermission

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Today in review: Do I need a nap? A happy hour drink? More than 24 hours in a day? Unclear

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What other contemporary director can say they mentored a young Spielberg like Lynch can?

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No one made films like Lynch, and perhaps no one ever will really match his distinct perspective and voice. Sad to hear of his passing, thankful for the art he created

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Thoughts on LA CHIMERA, which features an engrossing performance from CHALLENGERS' Josh O'Connor. "We are visually disoriented; he is temporally so. History is drawing Arthur into itself—possibly in more ways than one."

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Haven't seen THE BRUTALIST yet, but I'm stunned by the score (as I sit here in the brewery, being a weird nerd reading philosophy)

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