As an exercise the Fablemans is beyond interesting. Rarely does a director get the opportunity to self reflect, rarely do they get to tell their own story. Traditionally stories are passed down again and again and as they are retold the details get more and more grand. Simple stories become legend. That is not the case with The Fablemans, it’s well directed, well acted, and everything rings true. If there is embellishment, it’s hard to spot. It’s earnest to a…
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Babylon 2022
Babylon is gorgeous, well acted, and well directed and yet…Babylon is a bloated, self indulgent mess. It’s wild a studio spent $80m on a masturbatory dirge about movies being magical despite Hollywood being awful. Personally, making a movie about how great movies are is a fine line to walk. Unfortunately, though his intentions are admirable, Damien Chazelle only succeeds at making a movie that’s as insufferable as the characters portrayed.
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The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
An enjoyable film about sex, drugs and greed that, much like the characters, left me feeling empty. It's impossible not to correlate the excess of Jordan Belfort and the excess of the filmmaking here. It's engaging, and funny but in the end of the day the characters and the viewers don't really know what they were supposed to learn from the whole mess.
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