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A Complete Unknown 2024
Just such a straightforward Music Biopic™.
Very disappointing to watch a film about a groundbreaking and polarising artist be so limp and flat. The filmmakers are trying to portray this image of a tortured genius enigma, but do it through a straightforward telling of the events as they happened. It has nothing new or interesting to say.
Timothée does a good Dylan speaking impression, and a fantastic Dylan singing impression. Honestly amazing how he carries most of the songs in…
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The Brutalist 2024
This film is long. But honestly, I was locked in right from the beginning. Very few films can get away with a 3hr35min runtime and not feel needlessly indulgent, but Corbet pulls it off here with a deftness that really is impressive. How they made this for under $10mil and in less than a month is beyond me.
I really loved the cinematography. The cold-open looked so good that I was looking out for the name of the cinematographer in…
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Nickel Boys 2024
It took me a while to settle in with this one. As beautiful and well-composed as the cinematography is, the first person view can make things hard to grasp. We are (literally) inside the character's heads, but I feel that we actually lose some immersion and connection to their stories. Things can feel rather clinical; in the first half especially, I was never not aware that the characters were talking directly into a camera rig, or that Elwood's voice was…
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Being John Malkovich 1999
Criterion Challenge 2022: 1/52
"Ma-Sheen!"
"Malk-atraz!"What a way to start off the challenge. A fever-dream cocktail: 1 shot surrealism, 2 shots existential terror (add a dash of comedy for those inclined), shake over ice and fill the glass up with John Malkovich.
There's so much going on here; the desire and effects of fame, the lengths people go to for (literally) 15 minutes of it, the separation of art from the artist, and whether that's even possible. It's so…
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Initially, my rating for this was based on a combination of the film, and also the terrible cinema experience I had. I usually rate things immediately afterwards based on my initial feelings, and come back after some thought to update the rating. For this, my initial thoughts were clouded by the people around me being loud and obnoxious for almost the entire film. With a film like this, where things get very trippy and almost experimental in the second half,…
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