“If you don’t play, you can’t win.” - Desert Hearts, 1985 (Dir. Donna Deitch)
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Anora 2024
My favorite aspect is how Act I, Act II, and Act III each feel discrete in their structure, while still coming together to tell an interesting story that keeps you guessing. Act I asks you to let yourself be swept into what feels like a Cinderella story. I felt so happy for Anora to find a respite from the harsh matter-of-factness of her world in goofy Vanya. You hope alongside her—perhaps against better judgment—that he won’t flake. Act II feels…
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The Brutalist 2024
There are parts that are completely arresting and provocative, but predictably, it did not need to be 3.5 hours. Could have been 2.5 if not shorter. It ties threads and ends in a poignant spot. God it took a long time to get there though. I guess it’s the destination not the journey.
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Maria 2024
Magnificent.
Really, total perfection. Angelina Jolie disappears in her career-best. A biopic as artfully made as it is lovingly made. We relive La Callas’ height of prowess through the lens of her diminishment. Ferruccio and Bruna are surrogates for the audience, worrying over Maria, pitying her, while desperately wishing to shore up the magnificence that was once the greatest voice in the world. What could be and has been told as a descent into madness and death is instead an ascent into lightness and freedom—the release from the captivity of this Earth of something that was always too perfect to stay.
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