This is the kind of movie you celebrate for simply existing, something so marvelously different but so assured, complex but accessible, and deliriously, amazingly creative. It's a wonder that something this bizarre, this wild, this juvenile, this ambitious, and this specific in vision could find its way through the dream-killing factory that is Hollywood moviemaking. ![]() Everything Everywhere (my preferred shorthand from here) is a miracle of a movie. Everything Everywhere All At Once is, to be pithy, a whole lot of movie. It's been six long years for a follow-up but it sure has been worth it. If these men can make the farting corpse of Harry Potter not just one of the weirdest movies of 2016, not just one of the best films of that year, but also one of the most insightful toward the human condition, then these men can do anything. They have earned a lifetime pass from me. We don't need more giant franchise movies seeing success, we need more of whatever the hell this is.Įven after only two movies, I would trust the directing duo Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) with any movie. If you're going to see one movie this year please make it this one and then tell your friends to see it too. It makes you want to love yourself and those around you just a little more, if not at least giving them a chance. "Everything, Everywhere, All at once" is so fresh, zany and bizarre yet holds an audience's heart so closely with its themes that its authenticity is unquestionable. I also want to talk about the hints of HK cinema in it, where a lot of scenes feel inspired by Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow sensibilities but feel driven so much further with complex character stories that not only make you weep but laugh with joy. While simultaneously blasting the audience with powerful themes of self-discovery and familial relationships. ![]() At its core is a heartfelt dramedy set on the premise of a high concept modern sci fi full of quirky visual style and well choreographed martial arts. ![]() This is the type of filmmaking that truly hits all the right notes for me.
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