Vintage Soderbergh. An engaging spy thriller that’s nice and sexy. A group of nasty little intelligence community freaks harness the surveillance state to play sick games with each other and sweatily poke and prod into one another’s private lives. Someone has stolen a MacGuffin which if sold to Russian bad guys puts thousands of lives at risk. Michael Fassbender knows it was stolen by one of five people in his friend group, maybe even his wife Cate Blanchett. They’re renowned…
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Enter the Dragon 1973
Sure it’s got plot beats that defy logic, but that’s to be expected from 70s kung-fu cinema, and it’s way more clever, entertaining and well shot than it gets credit for. It never drags, the action is well choreographed, with smooth camera movement and well-timed zooms, and its grindhouse stew mash-up of Shaw Bros, James Bond and blacksploitation is a lot of fun. Bruce Lee is just awesome. He has such presence every time he’s on screen. There’s a part…
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The Brutalist 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I went into this movie knowing nothing except Adrien Brody is in it and it won some Golden Globes. Hadn’t seen the trailer, hadn’t followed any of the Zionist discourse, and was certainly unaware of its nearly 4 hour runtime. After seeing it, it’s pretty jarring to read all the hot takes accusing the film of being pretentious, thin, or lacking substance, because I found it to be such a rich text.
I loved the exploration of the immigration experience…
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 2022
In this Reddit-ass, epic bacon movie, Nic Cage plays a shallow caricature of himself which appears to have been written by someone who read two articles about Nic Cage and said "this guy is epic!" Two dimensional cardboard cutout characters written by a baby have tedious, unfunny dialogues about Paddington 2 and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari while a facile kidnapping plot barely even makes an attempt to play out around them. Tiffany Haddish very visibly could not give less…
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