A couple of clever and quasi-classic moments cannot overcome the sheer unnecessary-ness of this film. Sometimes being inessential is cloyingly worse than being bad
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Megalopolis 2024
One wonders if he would’ve been more successful adapting The Power Broker into a musical. It’s like Oppenheimer took an edible and vomited on the way to prom. How could a director make a film that is both intentionally and unintentionally bad? The former is to create a certain critical distance to allow the audience to digest larger points yet they end up being muddled in the end by the lack of a cohesion or follow through. But there is…
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Serpico 1973
Serpico is both epic and incredibly intimate in scope. The latter quality is just one of many elements which elevates this film from merely a crime movie. Frank Serpico is a man trying to live and find himself by engaging with the world—through art, ballet, dancing and chit-chatting at parties. And the more he finds himself outside of work, the deeper he dives into the world of unavoidable corruption that eventually threatens to tear him apart from without and within.…
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Domino 2005
Domino is an interesting film for its demonstration of Tony Scott’s filmmaking abilities. However contrary to many reviews on Letterboxd, Domino is not particularly original or mind-blowing. Prior to Domino, Scott introduced some new and energetic editing and visual techniques into Man on Fire (2004). He takes this style to its limit in Domino. Unlike in his prior film, he employs these techniques without discretion or an eye toward storytelling. They dominate the screen, resulting in a mess of a…
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