Wouldn't a judge have the resources to convalesce in a better nursing home than this? Why are all the staff so unwilling to believe him (a former judge) over Dave, an obvious weirdo? Aren't there any cameras anywhere in this facility? And what's with the photos showing that Dave worked there (apparently his entire life)? That detail's just totally forgotten about.
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Strange Darling 2023
I was genuinely surprised by the twist, but that's because it doesn't make any sense. Why doesn't the cop just call for support instead of hunting the girl on his own through forests, houses, etc?
Another thing I'd say is that this is yet another recent movie that is told out of chronological order for no good reason. I say for no "good" reason because I guess there is a reason--it's to allow for the twist. But because the twist…
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The Holdovers 2023
The characters of Paul is great; like in other Alexander Payne movies such as Election or Sideways he takes a sort-of outsidersor vague misfit and fleshes him out into a character we believe in, and care about. We recoil from Paul at the outset, with his rigid ideas about honour and standards and his cold, authoritarian classroom style. But by the end of the movie we see him more clearly, and feel genuine sympathy for him--unloved as a child, held…
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Poor Things 2023
Bella seems remarkably sanguine when she learns that she’s actually a fusion of a mother’s brain and a foetus’s body, but the movie isn’t going for realism—it’s more of a collection of grotesques. And it works to some extent. I wasn’t bored, and Lisbon looks great, the ship looks great, the whorehouse looks great, etc. But it’s just not clear what Lanthimos is saying here. The question of whether doing an operation like the one he does is justified is…
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