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On the one hand, Flee looks very good, but on the other it also made me go back and look for how long ago Waltz with Bashir came out and that was not a pleasant realization.

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I *adored* Benedetta; movie of the year so far for me. To be fair, I saw a preview screening at the Music Box and it was just a glorious movie going experience. There were right wing Catholic protestors out front (with a bagpipe!) and the crowd was hooting and hollering and raising the roof. I was sitting with three friends, all of us ex-Catholic, and we were all going absolutely nuts the entire movie.

Also, there's a thread in the movie that Scott doesn't mention, but that really resonated with me: Benedetta coming to see herself as not just as Christ's messenger but as Christ herself. There was a line Benedetta says near the end of the movie that caused me to just about jump out of my seat in shock and excitement: "it's fine, I had to be betrayed".

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FLEE is this year's movie-I'd-never-heard-of-in-advance-of-its-release-that-I'm-most-excited-to-see. Animation has turned into such a potent documentary form -- I'm thinking not just of WALTZ WITH BASHIR but also 2016's TOWER.

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