Something obviously artificial committed to wholeheartedly will always be better art than something that fails to pretend to be real.
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Emilia Pérez 2024
Almost no director has fallen off as badly as Audiard. Horrendously bad on almost every conceivable level cinematically, musically, artistically, politically or spiritually. Destined however, I fear, to become a guaranteed camp classic for almost those exact reasons.
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The Zone of Interest 2023
Six months ago there might have been much philosophising as to how people can act so blithely as they take part in such evil. Today I got out of the film and one of the first things I saw online was IOF soldiers rummaging through the underwear draw of a Palestinian woman, a stark echo of a scene in this film where the Germans go through a pile of clothes stolen from murdered Jewish women. This film is an incredible…
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The Beekeeper 2024
Statham invariably dispatches people with a grim air of frustration, like he'd rather not be mowing through scores of henchmen but you cunts just fuckin wouldn't let it go. This classic Statham protagonist, principled, hard-as-nails, pissed off, cuts a swathe through a mix of those anonymous cops and some extremely entertaining over-the-top cartoon scumbags from a snivelling scammer to an obnoxious crypto bro and beyond (ever want the audience to immediately root against a bad guy: make them a white…
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