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The Brutalist 2024
Spoiler Alert. Everyone will likely agree it did not need to be over 3.5 hours. The cinematography was beautiful, the acting exceptional, and the overall tone, wardrobe, set design, and style were grounded. So it’s a shame the story itself felt muddled. In particular, the SA toward the end felt contrived and tired. Was this an immigrant story, a downstream Holocaust story, an architecture and design story, a SA and power story…the film could not make up its mind. That’s probably why it was 3.5 hours and less than the sum of its parts.
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TRON: Legacy 2010
The aesthetics (clothes, home of Flynn, etc.), Daft Punk soundtrack, and Michael Sheen as a Bowie-inspired king pin do the heavy lifting.
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Freud's Last Session 2023
The critics consensus: great acting, terrible script, flat directing, and a popular concept for audiences in 2005. I generally agree, but the source of the film’s troubles is not entirely in the writing or directing but in two primary constraints. First, it’s failure to launch from a theater play to a <2 hour theater film. Plays have a way of captivating audiences through their intimate proximity, their three-dimensional experience, and the felt tension of art manifested without a chance for…
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Batman Forever 1995
A product of its time, the Riddler Carreys the film to playability for today’s curious viewer. It’s “definitely wacko.”
Bonus: Chris O’Donnell flies into the hearts of every mid-90s gay boy.
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