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Vox Lux 2018
What a swing. Not everything works, but there’s so much that does. Shooting music, especially fake one, is difficult, and Corbet nails it. Natalia Portman delivers a hell of a performance in the second half. But Raffey Cassidy is so luminous as her younger self in the first half that I was kind of angry when we switched to Portman. Let’s say this movie doesn’t have a lot of laughs, but there are some to be had. As there are…
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Quest for Fire 1981
It’s fascinating how the movie always teeters on the edge to self parody but never fully crosses it. It starts out real silly, but the world building and the spectacular nature photography drew me in over time, until I was fully immersed by the end.
There’s little explanation as to what we’re seeing, and everyone’s speaking in made-up languages (created by Anthony Burgess nonetheless). Even more confounding is how uncultivated the tribe we’re seeing is, given that humans were supposedly…
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Wake in Fright 1971
Not at all what I expected. Plays fairly straight. A man’s world populated by drinkers, gamblers and sweaty workmen. Reminded me a lot of Cockfighter, and not just because of the extreme brutality against animals. Donald Pleasance is a force of nature.
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Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025
What a nothingburger of a documentary. I guess doing true crime for Netflix pays the bills, and Morris seems to enjoy diving into the Manson story, but the avenue he took is truly baffling. Morris’ work is best when the lines between truth and fiction blur, and it’s difficult to tell them apart. That is not the case here. The central interviewee is clearly off his rockers with a classic conspiracy theory built on confusing correlation with causation. And even…
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The People's Joker 2022
At the same time wilder than I expected, but also more coherent. Really compelling, and extremely bold to even attempt to make this. Proves that it is possible to actually tell meaningful stories within the confines of Big IP. And you could probably make a hundred of these with the budget of one of the many empty superhero spectacles we’re still getting bombarded with.
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