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The Bear (2022)
Overrated
Horrible, grating, self-conscious music choices made by the creator, instead of utilizing a music supervisor (always a horrible mistake usually made out of ego), overwrought drama and acting (by most but not all of the cast), a working class setting trying to obfuscate the fact that it is basically a typical upper-middle-class boring drama about the self-destructive, fragile young genius white guy, who everyone is so worried about because he is a genius, fragile, and also a fragile genius. Like a bad off-broadway play totally in love with itself, thinking it's sooo sophisticated to have people constantly talk over each other with nonsense dialog never uttered by a real human being, convinced it is somehow all very important, but adding up to nothing. Don't beleive the hype.
Aatos ja Amine (2019)
A beautiful, impossible film
This beautiful documentary about two small boys of different backgrounds working through the contentious politics which surround them, and religious differences which divide them, is by far the best film I have seen this year. A beautiful, sensitive, miraculous film, which moved me so deeply during its screening that I felt an overwhelming sense of wonder at its existence. The love which the two boys feel for each other is palpable, and the way in which they honestly grapple with the religious and cultural differences which complicate that love, and the delicate way in which the filmmaker has captured it, is profound. I'm not a person who easily engages in superlatives, but this is as good as nonfiction cinema gets.