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Midsommar 2019
All Midsommar needs is a few more years to allow people to remember its strengths and ignore its weaknesses and this 4* will quite possibly mature into a 4.5 or even 5. Because that’s what happens with cult films - they are so brilliant where they are brilliant that over time we don’t even see the flaws. And Midsommar is exactly that - not just a cult film, not just about cults, but cultish in its own right - all…
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Beau Travail 1999
Imagine a film that occupies the entire space between L’etranger, Lord of the Flies and Lawrence of Arabia. Massive and vivid desert shots are the backdrop for an existential study into a lone group of soldiers, miles from home and trapped by the shackles of repetitive and meaningless military duties. It’s a beautiful, claustrophobic slow burner - just as in a Sartre or a Tarkovsky, nothing happens, and everything happens. And Claire Denis absolutely deserves to have her name right there alongside them.
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Alien: Romulus 2024
Just atrocious. Its as if you trained an AI purely on bad blockbuster action remakes and then asked it to make a horror film. There's just no filmmaking sense of horror - the characters are embarassingly poorly scripted and constantly in the way of the film, and there is no sense of threat or tension created through the cinematography and editing - so it isn't even satisfying watching the cast get murdered.
On top of that the soundtrack sounds like…
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The Batman 2022
The Batman starts as a confident, fresh take on the batman franchise - dark, gritty, morally ambiguous, twistey. In this iteration the Batman isn't a confident, rich, nespresso-advertising hunk, but a weird, reclusive almost incel-like weirdo. The backdrop is more akin to the Sopranos' New Jersey than the Avengers' New York. All of the main performances are top notch, in particular from Colin Farrell as the Penguin. It's a real shame that about half way through, the film chickens out…
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