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The Brutalist 2024
Sometimes movies are really long because they are very content-dense. Sometimes movies are long because they are very slow. The Brutalist isn't either: the plot is actually quite skeletal—in fact, I'd say that, disappointingly, not much happens throughout the film—but it doesn't play like slow cinema plays at all either; it has the pulse of your modern average Oscar-nominated Hollywood flick. The reason why The Brutalist is long is of a rarer nature.
There's this intuitive concept with professionals ('professionals'…
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Megalopolis 2024
If you came here expecting for a sweeping collection of profound and coherent political statements that would come to shape a definitive early-mid-21st century piece of meaningful narrative art then: (A) What the fuck, are you really that naive? And (B) this one is a particularly deafening failure because, according to the commander-in-chief, it was earnestly attempting to be such a thing. I don't believe I could even get away with arguing that the narrative, even accepting its nonsensicality, is…
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Love Exposure 2008
Ripping off Roger Ebert's infamous criticism of Battlefield Earth, I think Sion Sono has learned from better films that directors sometimes make lots of quick cuts in succession, but he has not learned why.
I was totally expecting... well, perhaps not a masterpiece, but a truly exceptional film. All the good signs surrounded it. And it turns out it is mostly a preachy soap opera with a lot of cringe. Every character acts like they are in a Paul Thomas…
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We're All Going to the World's Fair 2021
An implicit rule of 20th century forms of entertainment (such as movies) is that you do not acknowledge 21st century forms of entertainment, especially when they are twisted internet shit. This is one of the few films I know that breaks such rule without conveying a lot of 'How do you do fellow kids' vibes. What it glances at is not optimistic in the slightest, but neither it is trying to talk down those 'stupid kids'; instead, it suggests we…
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