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The Age of Innocence 1993
Winding, weaving aristocratic drama that is reduced, regrettably, to the affairs and affection of two mildly provocative characters, of which Michelle Pfeiffer delivers the better performance. The physical intimacy was excellent and offered Day-Lewis at his best in the film. Costuming was fine, script was not.
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May December 2023
Confused and overbaked. Julianne Moore delivers and delivers again, and the use of music is charming and fun. Yet stiff performances and dead-end ideas cramp any interesting tension.
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There Will Be Blood 2007
I can offer nothing new as testatment to this film's greatness. The score is sickening and suspenseful, and Daniel Day-Lewis's performance is disturbingly and hilariously precise. How can such a character be drawn out of someone? My only issue is that the film seems to offer one and a half endings, and the reasons for that are not obvious (nor even interesting to me, given the dragging runtime).
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The Holdovers 2023
An atrocious score and a suffering script are uplifted by perfomances by Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston and, almost, Dominic Sessa. Giamatti's performance is fine, but it tries to draw too much from a character with little depth. The shot of Randolph smoking in her apron at that little desk is wonderful, perhaps even perfect.
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