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jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy Part 2 (Netflix): In a week when Kanye’s newest album Donda 2 is making headlines for finally being released and ending up driving his other past albums to the top of the charts on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, and other streaming services, part two of the retrospective documentary has come out and continued to deflect a lot of bad press regarding his relationship with Kim Kardashian and her new boyfriend, Pete Davidson. It continues to showcase him as an artist and the younger version of the person he is now which provides for some interesting insight into who he is.
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Free Guy (Disney+ and HBOMax): Due to a hybrid streaming deal stemming from the acquisition of 20th Century Fox by the Walt Disney Company, last year’s surprise hit Free Guy is available to stream both on HBOMax and Disney+. The movie is a great hard science fiction movie about what constitutes life and what happens when AI gains sentience. It does this in a way that is incredibly accessible so audiences of all ages can get a first impression of what science fiction can do if implemented well.
The French Dispatch (HBOMax): Wes Anderson is back and delivers another movie that perfectly showcases his artistic style. The movie features all his trademark production design, set design, costuming, dialogue quirks, and casting. It’s not going to change the minds of anyone who does not like Wes Anderson’s movies; but if someone does like them, they will find this perfectly serviceable and enjoyable.
Sucker Punch (Hulu): This movie only makes the list because of where it falls in the timeline of movie releases and the possible alternate timelines that this movie could have spawned. Sucker Punch is not a great movie, but it is really pretty to look at. It came out between 2011 and was the movie that Zack Snyder directed between Watchmen and Man of Steel. This calls to mind The Book of Henry, Colin Trevorrow’s movie that came out between Jurassic World and his edition of Star Wars Episode IX. Trevorrow was fired from Star Wars following the failure of The Book of Henry; Snyder was not fired following the failure of Sucker Punch. It would be interesting to see what a Superman movie helmed by any of the other directors who were in contention would have looked like, and the possibility of that happening would begin with this movie.
