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title: High Flying Bird
type: Movie
date: 2023-09-11
rating: 4
year: 2019
director: Steven Soderbergh
status: Finished
image: hfb.jpeg
tags:
  - movie
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 I was very surprised to neither like nor love this movie, given the amount of affection I have for all of its constituent parts: Soderbergh, Zazie Beetz, sports business, and the NBA. But there was a _thinness_ to the entire thing that made me wishing (so rarely!) for a longer run-time; characters felt like avatars than actual people (with the exception of Beetz, who seemed to play a prototype of her [[Full Circle]] character), and the final third resolved with the aplomb of an air leak.