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Juror #2 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The film seems hastily stitched together with a brooding, weighty conscience that seemed to extinguish the thrill from the thriller. It meanders at times and, despite some decent attempts at observing the various plights facing the justice system, ultimately betrays a sense that it doesn't know what it wants to say. To demonstrate how the administration of criminal justice through the jury is a fickle affair, the dispositions of the jurors are far from polished to tell a coherent story…
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The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful 2017
In Yang Ya-che’s 2017 masterpiece “The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful” there is an impulse for meticulous perfection rarely seen in the industry. Presenting an elaborate labyrinth of a storyline sometimes just as captivating as it is enigmatic, the film’s Chinese title is more telling of its ruthlessness: “The Bloody Bodhisattva.” Unlike other films in the crime drama genre, “The Bold” eschews the ubiquitous themes of guns, exile and intimidating masculinity for a far more understated, yet just as…
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