Lawyer's Conscience
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4 stars – it's an great movie
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While not spectacular in any way, Primal Fear is a movie that simply delivers some great courtroom drama with some great characters and fantastic performances. The writing is good, the mystery is intriguing, and it's an easy movie to digest.
I really like these courtroom dramas which are soaked in uncertainty, where you never know whether or not the story being told is true. It's so engaging because you're…
I can't really score a concert movie, but if you know anything about my taste in music, it's how much I love Hans Zimmer. His melodies are iconic; they effortlessly weave together epic scale with beauty and tension.
The medleys in this concert were absolutely fantastic. I got to hear almost all of my favourite songs with a degree of fidelity and performativity that can't help but move me. This is an exhausting experience—but that's because Zimmer's work is exhausting…
Fulfilling the Prophecy
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5 stars – it's a masterpiece
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Yep, absolute fucking masterpiece. It fixes almost everything that's wrong with the first movie (characterisation, character arcs, and action scenes) while doing what the first movie does EVEN BETTER (audio-visual experience, world-building, and ideas beyond human comprehension).
Dune: Part 2 is easily one of the greatest cinematic experiences ever produced.
Shared Experience
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3½ stars – it's a good movie
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Ari Aster is an absolutely incredible director—every shot, every cut, and every sound in this film is fucking art. Unfortunately, he's a pretty bad writer. These characters are shallow and their behaviour is often illogical. The lack of interesting tie-ins/tie-ups of narrative threads really knock the wind out of this film because all the interesting mysteries it sets up demand an effective resolution so the journey feels earned. That…
