Bad direction, editing, acting and everything else that makes a movie (even with its sights set so low as a still-bargain-bin-30-years-ago style bro comedy), but I laughed a good amount and that was all I was looking for. Rahill seriously needs to make a big break already, he operates on a completely different level than anyone else in the game today.
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Meat 2024
Draws from the ancient narrative tradition of how heaven and earth will move to accommodate an absolute failson. A slowdown after a simmering beginning falls into some predictable movements for the middle, but the ending serves up the promised Greek tragedy with all the surprise and catharsis that entails. I'm curious to see how this would look from better seats because I was so close to the screen that the permanently shaky camera and extreme close-up style was a little overwhelming, but I'm sure that was partly the intention. It also features a cast of the Greekest looking men I've seen on film.
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The Life of Chuck 2024
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR: (begins movie's first of many uninterrupted monologues)
KAREN GILLAN: (gulping progressively larger pours of pinot noir in silence)This one was a better Fabelmans than the Fabelmans. Not without a decent helping of schmaltz, but the specificity of the characters and the sincerity of emotion earned the weepier aspects. Flanagan deeply needs to figure out how to dramatize philosophies and thematics in ways that aren't characters preaching paragraphs and paragraphs of meaningful text to each other, but I…
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