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‘One Battle After Another’ is a film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson starring Leonardo DiCaprio, blending comedy, thriller, and drama to reflect the chaos of modern life, and is praised for its humor and emotional depth.
Makoto Shinkai's latest animated film, "Suzume," blends mythology and modernity in a thoroughly modern world of magic, spells, old gods, Instagram posts, and texts. The story follows a 17-year-old girl named Suzume who accidentally unleashes chaos over Japan and must help a man turned into a three-legged chair to prevent a catastrophic earthquake. While the film delivers on drama and physical comedy, it falls short in elaborating the rules of its world and fully squaring its mythology with real environmental tragedies.