A tight little feature with an unwavering premise and some top-notch VFX. Elba isn’t exactly doing yeoman’s work with such a one dimensional role, but I think it’s only right he’s crowned king after making a lion eat his right-hook.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Here we go again with this one more time:
Staying true to its name, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is disorienting and messy— no doubt an intentional part of what this movie is trying to communicate. But all the absurd, over-the-top elements that get mixed-in leave the more tender moments of the story feeling empty and insincere.
Let’s be clear— this is probably 2022’s Best Picture. The filmmaking is an impressive feat on its own, and there are flashes of…
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Infinity Pool 2023
Year of the Goth. She turns in yet another gutsy performance and Skarsgård actually matches her stride-for-stride here, both at the very top of their game in challenging roles. Visually, this film doesn’t miss, and conceptually— much like the titular subject— it’s endlessly deep & insidiously seductive. Minor qualms with the premise and execution aside, this is 2023’s first home run.
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House Party 2023
@mustafatikiwala: “A modern gatsby”
Look I’ll say this— for a premise so derivative and a plot so one-dimensional, this movie gets absolutely saved by its last 30 minutes.
The film does take a pretty accurate snapshot of 2023, and loads itself up on an endless amount of cringey cameos in the process. But it all really just amounts to an empty facsimile of the original movie; which was a real, culturally significant portrait of the hip-hop world in 1990.
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