A bunch of people have already said Memories of Murder is basically Korean Zodiac. And while the surface-level similarities are obvious - both are detective procedurals based on real-life serial killer cases - there's much more to it than that. As a massive Fincher fanboy who thinks Zodiac may be his best film, I can't really say which one I prefer, but they're both near-perfect films, but there's a lot more to it in Memories of Murder. Yes, there's the…
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A Real Pain 2024
A Real Pain is a film about loss, grief, and struggling to show the real you even to people you're supposed to be close with. I didn't think I'd be saying this about a Jesse Eisenberg film after his debut film fell flat on its face for me, but boy, does this hit close to home. Eisenberg's writing is excellent and finds a perfect balance between the goofy and the poignant. I heard someone call this a "Holocaust road-trip dramedy,"…
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Lost in Translation 2003
I always find it hard to put my feelings about a film I love into words, and that goes double for Lost in Translation. But before I start try to do just that it might be a good idea to preface it by saying I'm probably off the mark on some things, so this might be confusing, but films like this one are very subjective, and different people are bound to feel different things. I think one of the things…
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Into the Wild 2007
Sean Penn returns to the director's chair for Into the Wild, an adaptation of the eponymous novel, which is in turn based on the amazing true-life story of Chris McCandless, an idealist who abandons his promising future and society altogether to embark on a journey of self-discovery and absolute freedom. Maybe it's best described as a coming of age film, but I fear even that might be a misnomer. Into the Wild is hard to classify, and perhaps even harder…
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