I know he's hot but come on, Powell is not up to this (yet?), he gets swallowed up by the (nevertheless paper-thin) material, opting for the safest, most predictable acting choices throughout. It feels like he wants to be liked too much—and how could you hate the guy—but that refusal to allow any of the darkness through is a personal indulgence at the expense of the work.
The final act hints at a more interesting movie and I wish we…
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Hard to decide if Taika Waititi belongs in director jail or actual jail. Our unmatched war crime agitprop king.
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Tenet 2020
150 minutes isn't enough for Nolan to give any of his characters a single personality trait—the most nuanced of them is Debicki because she gets referred to as a wife and mother every five minutes.
There are no human beings in this interminably boring train wreck—neither are ideas, visual or thematic. The main "spectacle" involves reverse playback of footage, something that was the coolest thing when we were 12 but isn't exactly interesting by itself at this point. So what…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
The only thing worse than this fraudulent piece of abuse-apologia are its fans.
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