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Past Lives 2023
It’s actually kind of insane that someone could make this essentially perfect film as their feature debut? Seriously one of the best films of 2023 (if not the best one) and one of my new all time favorites. Very excited for Celine Song’s next film!
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017
Martin McDonagh has opted to invoke a distinct sense of place in this film that ultimately doesn't work and contradicts the lazy rendering of Middle America and the mid-west he's trying to build (things like placing the film in a non-existent town in Missouri and then shooting in North Carolina). Geographical reduction of the U.S. from a British filmmaker aside, this trivia serves as a microcosm for the many ways this film paints in overly broad strokes for the sole…
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The Brutalist 2024
Two stars for the title design and some good sound design/score moments.
There are a lot of scenes where the plot elements or character moments are introduced and then dropped/never pay off and Brody's character never gets a real "why" behind any of his vision/his love of architecture beyond some shots of models and a quippy retort at one point. The movie doesn't do a good job at showing (and doesn't even really get around to telling) important background info…
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