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Big Eyes Smart Mouth

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Big Eyes Smart Mouth: After the Rain

Serdar Yegulalp
April 25, 2018
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
But After the Rain, from Jun Mayuzuki's manga of the same name, isn't about romance, but something subtler and harder to come by.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Life of Budori Gusuko

Serdar Yegulalp
April 13, 2018
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
What I can't complain about, and what makes the movie absolutely worth seeing anyway, is just about everything else in it.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Napping Princess

Serdar Yegulalp
March 14, 2018
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
Napping Princess feels like too much and too little at the same time.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Perfect Blue

Serdar Yegulalp
February 28, 2018
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
A movie this good, there's always another layer to unwrap.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Land of the Lustrous

Serdar Yegulalp
February 7, 2018
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
Lustrous's microcosm is a crescent-shaped island somewhere out in the middle of an apparently endless ocean.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Haibane Renmei

Serdar Yegulalp
November 15, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
Like Wings of Desire, 2001, Night On The Galactic Railroad, or any of the other great works about man's place in the universe, Haibane Renmei inspires more reflection than certainty.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Kaiba

Serdar Yegulalp
November 1, 2017
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Kaiba is set in a universe that has what I could describe as an alternate ecology.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Neo Yokio

Serdar Yegulalp
October 18, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
It's not good, to be sure -- but maybe being its own special kind of bad is more valuable than we think.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Blade Runner Black Out 2022

Serdar Yegulalp
October 4, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
The simple algebra for Blade Runner Black Out 2022 is that it's to Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 as an episode of The Animatrix was to The Matrix generally.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Seijun Suzuki’s ‘Taishō Trilogy’

Serdar Yegulalp
September 20, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
Japan's Roaring Twenties are both backdrop and stage for these three excursions into the delirious, the decadent, and the surreal.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: In This Corner of the World

Serdar Yegulalp
September 13, 2017
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A masterwork, not just of period reconstruction and attention to the details of daily life, but also for the ways it navigates through the tricky issues of a story about WWII Japan without stumbling.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Death Note (2017)

Serdar Yegulalp
August 30, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
There are so many individual things wrong with Netflix's live-action Death Note film that you might as well roll dice to figure out where to start.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Astonishing Work of Tezuka Osamu

Serdar Yegulalp
August 16, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
The work collected in Astonishing is as wide-ranging as the man who created it.

Welcome To The Desert Of The Real: The Live-Action ‘Gintama’ And ‘Bleach’

Serdar Yegulalp
August 2, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
There's always the chance the live-action 'Gintama' and 'Bleach' movies will be good, but right now they appear to embody the deadliest, most literal sins of such projects.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Outlaw Star

Serdar Yegulalp
July 12, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
Outlaw Star mashes together ingredients drawn as much from Westerns and wuxia adventure stories as it does space opera or pulp SF.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Ocean Waves

Serdar Yegulalp
June 14, 2017
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A trifle of a film, but it doesn't overstate its importance or overstay its welcome, and it shows how Studio Ghibli gave as much care to stories like this as they did for any of Miyazaki's fantasias

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Netflix’s BLAME!

Serdar Yegulalp
May 31, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
Nihei's original story sported a premise that lent itself to near-infinite extension.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Carried by the Wind – Tsukikage Ran

Serdar Yegulalp
May 3, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
The results are consistently hilarious, and so Tsukikage Ran works both as a love letter to its source material and a mutation of it, an homage and a sendup alike.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Miss Hokusai

Serdar Yegulalp
April 19, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
With a potentially fascinating story about the daughter of the fabled artist Hokusai and some beautiful production design, it's a shame this unfocused and aimless film isn't better.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Tatami Galaxy

Serdar Yegulalp
March 15, 2017
Big Eyes Smart Mouth
When the director of 'Mind Game' and the author of 'The Eccentric Family' got together, they created a comedic masterpiece that plays like 'Groundhog Day' fused with both of those visionary projects.
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