A little messy and a little cliché and a little unfocused and a little wonderful. When it works, it really works. An enjoyable picture with Garfield and Pugh both bringing the heat. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You maybe won’t want to go back and see it again, but it’s still worth a watch
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Strange Darling 2023
Indulgent filmmaking. The kind of storytelling that actors adore, but for me almost always becomes a chore to watch
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Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
To begin with, the opening minute or so is amongst the worst filmmaking I’ve ever seen. It was abysmal. It did definitely get better after that, but not by a whole lot. Throughout the entirety of it, I was never able to get truly lost in the story and forget I was watching a movie.
The audience in the theater did help me realize something though. When Daredevil came on screen, the person next to me threw their arms toward…
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Civil War 2024
A road trip movie. A movie about art and journalism. A war movie where nobody really cares about why the fighting is happening, just when and where. Streamlined, sometimes to a fault, but not without charm behind it. Some of the dialogue doesn’t work for me, feeling too expositional, but in places like Plemons’ scene, Garland is operating at such a high level, creating the tension and letting us sit in it, not rushing through. Those moments are just pure,…
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