Never went where I thought it would, which kept me enjoyably grasping, though A Different Man’s numerous unexpected turns were somewhat hamstrung by stubborn limits on their fullest exploration, a tendency that seems just as much a part of the A24 house style as the abstract score and 70s-inflected camerawork, wardrobe, etc. are. Still, Adam Pearson is terrifically funny as the quasi-doppelganger whose indomitable joie de vivre sends Sebastian Stan into Leo-in-KotFM levels of pouty frown.
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Queer 2024
Much as he banked Call My By Your Name's awards season gold in a grim Argento remake, Luca Guadagnino follows his poptimistic, zippily Fincher-like crowd-pleaser Challengers with another commendable left turn. This is Guadagnino's most withholding movie — and that's saying something in a career populated by characters reared to avoid admitting their wounds and desires alike. Queer is all the better for it. As Todd Haynes knew when making Carol, interiority can be cloying, reductive, and pathologizing, and if…
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Summer with Monika 1953
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I hate to say it, but I made a Letterboxd account specifically because the top-rated review of Summer With Monika by Cramer K. is so childish and offensive that I felt compelled to post a rebuttal. Not because Summer With Monika should be beyond criticism, but because of how loudly and overconfidently he misunderstands its characters. I know: it’s over a decade old, and who really cares, but his writing is the first assessment of this movie that many people…
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Return to Seoul 2022
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A lot of love went to Past Lives, but this psychologically harder and far less comforting take on unrootedness is its better in every way.
It's kind of depressing to me to see how many people on here are confused about why Freddie ends up working for the military-industrial complex. The point of the ending is that Freddie feels so confused by her father's desperation and hurt by her mother's rejection that she makes herself invulnerable against the call of…
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