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The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
The love story you didn't know you needed.
Accept it as a love story, set in a familiar world, and you get the ending we wanted in 3.
I watched it with action expectations and was disappointed. Then I rewatched the series, acknowledged the love story underpinning them all, and then rewatched 4, and it made sense. This isn't an action movie; it's an existential love story in action clothes, and I thoroughly enjoyed it once I changed my expectations. Neo's almost never on offense; he doesn't show up with a satchel of weapons, he uses his powers largely defensively, and he uses his mind and wits and, well, love of Trinity to solve his crisis.
Like many reviewers I was disappointed at first, but watching it again, on the heels of 3, it slid seamlessly into the void 3 created.
One Starry Christmas (2014)
Cheating isn't Christmassy or Romantic
A Christmas movie about dumping your fiancewhile effectively cheating on him, in front of him?
Not sure any of this is about Christmas, as it seems to be mostly about unrestrained hormones.