I’m Still Here’s affection for its subjects, though tender, is largely hagiographic.
The film finds Marianne Jean-Baptiste channeling an anger that feels excruciatingly real.
The film is about the fraught ambiguities of seeing through a one-way mirror.
Flight is a unifying theme here, just as it is so much of Miyazaki’s work.
Miyazaki’s film suggests that the Earth will keep spinning long after the old masters have left us.
Close Your Eyes interprets the unknown as a life already lived, slowly dissolving into memory.
This is Ghost Trick as it always was: pristine, unassuming, and inimitable.