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Locked 2025
Before David Yarovesky’s Locked came 4×4, a 2019 Argentine film directed by Mariano Cohn. 4×4 was a spectacular failure. It had a great premise: a scumbag thief tries to steal a car, but ends up locked inside, unable to escape – the car’s owner turns out to be a psychopath exacting some twisted revenge. However, 4×4 peters out after the first 15 minutes, during which it lays out all the stakes and then forgets to escalate the plot any further,…
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Who by Fire 2024
Who by Fire is a direct homage to the Leonard Cohen song. However, if you’re expecting the Unetanneh Tokef, a visit to the synagogue or even a single Jewish character on screen, you’re out of luck. After the film wrapped, the Cohen reference was suggested by a friend of director Philippe Lesage, as a more interesting translation of the French title, Comme le Feu.
The Cohen-inspired title does offer us a hint regarding the film’s themes. Who by Fire is…
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Cosmopolis 2012
There’s an order at some deep level. A pattern that wants to be seen.
When we first see Robert Pattinson onscreen as Eric Packer, his sunglasses are asymmetrical.
Not askew–there’s no mistake–just asymmetrical. The glasses just sit like that on his ears, on his face. That’s the level of detail Cronenberg’s working with here, in Cosmopolis, a film about a limo driving down Manhattan’s 47th street over the course of one full day. That’s it, that’s the plot: the famous…
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The Batman 2022
pattinson’s interpretation is fantastic but the script is totally empty. feels like gotham only exists once the camera is pointed. every bit of the city that’s out of frame doesn’t exist. reeves does not hold the world of batman in his hands.
shame that there are a couple thought out images but with nothing stringing them together. watching this made me realize that for all nolan’s faults, at least he’s able to hold a world in his hands. it took…
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