not only was this my favorite picture of the best pictures this year but my god I cannot wait to see more from RaMell Ross. this film had the best acting, the best cinematography of the year. the shifting POVs guiding the film through Elwood’s childhood, the cinematography every scene but especially in the moment we see Elwood (in the shop window) and then Elwood and Turner together in the mirror above. to finally understand why Turner becomes this second POV, this second voice. the inclusion of media like the radio ad for a theme park that played as the car was being pulled over.
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The Brutalist 2024
so i came into this feeling complicated. complicated because this is not the end of the debate about AI in films that get nominated for best picture, to be honest! but i must say, i really fell in love with the first act. the way the film captured how small you feel in the shadow of a huge building, how standing there makes you feel so tiny that looking up it can even feel a bit suffocating. this film harnesses…
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Stranger at the Gate 2022
I really don’t like that this short doc really is just a redemption arc of a violent white man which depended on the Muncie Muslim community to be kind enough to fix him when he wanted to kill them, just doesn’t feel right to me
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Oppenheimer 2023
Oppenheimer’s first pursuit at Berkeley is studying what happens to stars when they die, we spend the entire film watching Oppenheimer’s brilliance be destroyed by his own ego and by Strauss whose retaliated for Oppenheimer’s blows to his own reputation. watching these self obsessed men (toss in Teller too) handle the most terrifying scientific discovery to date is suffocating and it only gets more uncomfortable with a second watch. we think the sound was up a notch upon our second…
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