Bike roaring down a long winding road through the trees, close up shot of Timmy's face, hard cut to credits as Rolling Stone kicks in - that's cinema to me baby. A fairly classic bildungsroman with a message caught somewhere between speaking truth to power (in all its guises), rejection of a father figure and finding your own way, and a how-to guide to being a dick to as many beautiful women as possible. Kinda loved it, felt like a…
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A Real Pain 2024
Mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I agree that the dynamic between Eisenberg/Culkin feels very lived in; the subtleties in both performances are there, including some fantastic facial tics, and as a duo they were entertaining and believable.
On the other hand, I felt that the film borrowed a lot of its emotional intensity from the subject matter and lacked any real character development. There are some key points: Culkin's realisation that perhaps Grandma had more complex feelings…Translated from by
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La Chimera 2023
A film you’d like to live in. Ending caught me by surprise but I think it probably enriches it.
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