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I'm David Ehrlich.

I'm a film critic for IndieWire.

You can find my review of Godzilla Minus Zero, which every time I say that out loud just makes me think of the joke from Sideways where he calls his novel The Day After Yesterday and Virginia Madsen says...

Why not just call it today? But be that as it may, yeah, you can be wherever you want to be.

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Hello, I'm Anne Thompson from IndieWire.

This is Ryan Lattanzio on Octobos.

Hi, I'm Ryan Lattanzio from IndieWire.

We're calling up James Gray, the filmmaker of Paper Tiger.

Hello.

Just to give you a flavour, like the Financial Times said it was... frustratingly flat and a hacky, frustrating sequel.

IndieWire said it was a draggy, so-what journo drama, which there are plenty around.

I'll have to be honest about that.

And The Guardian said it was jittery and had some false notes.

I was trying to find a specific count of shots that included CG work.

The closest I could find was David Ehrlich in his review for IndieWire said 670 of the movie's 2,804 shots have been augmented by CGI is the way that he phrased it and I was looking into it a little further and like I mentioned in my review it's basically like a lot of it is focused on background stuff and also like some specific things that are not able to be rendered through stop motion animation so like the crows that are all flying the models of them are stop motion but in terms of compositing them into a single image that is done through computer generated imagery and stuff sort of like compositing it together

And I know that Laika in the past had done some similar augmentation.

I can't speak to it specifically, so I'm not going to, but I remember.

But yeah, that's all my notes for Wildwood.

I didn't have any specific quote from reviews.

I read David Ehrlich's at IndieWire, David Feer's at Whirling Stone, and then Holly's at Little White Lies.

But pretty much all of them were... sort of saying the same sort of stuff that we've talked about here i think holly was the only one that i read where uh she was very high on the plotting whereas uh both david's uh and do i are in rolling stone were like very similar to us in terms of like yeah it's kind of disappointing in terms of story uh presentation and characterization and stuff but god damn the fucking artistry behind it is so impressive that it doesn't matter

I did want to kind of bring in a quote from Pete Docter.

I think he was talking to IndieWire, one of these other sites.

But he talked about kind of the original pitch of this film.

And it's a little different.

I think it's embedded in the storytelling and in the script.

It's weird that on the IMDb picture, the only quote says, absolutely fucking insane, IndieWire.

And it's like, that's what they want.

They want people to watch this and say that's insane.

And look, the Gothams are very small juries.

They're like five people that work at IndieWire voted the Gothams.

People we like.

Yeah.