This ROCKS. Soderbergh at his best here. Playful, stylish, simple, absolutely no wasted motion or dialogue. A perfect genre piece, existing in its own cold but slick world full of cold but slick characters. A slyly, deceptively lovely film about commitment and passion in the face of the opposite.
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The Brutalist 2024
This absolutely feels like a huge achievement, and it is occasionally completely breathtaking in its ambition and its formal elements. I don’t know if thematically or emotionally this all came together for me as I’d hoped, especially that ending. The obvious term being used for this is monumental, and it is, but there is something not clicking in the second half of this. The first half felt like watching something truly special, so I can’t help but be a bit disappointed in the destination which is ironic or even maybe intentional given where this goes.
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The Martian 2015
A bland, poorly structured and scripted movie. It's full of excuses to spoon feed the audience with information, there's no characters to speak of, everything is so surface level. The film kind of sums itself up when one character asks 'what the psychological effects of this situation must be on a man', cut to the man in question breezing through the situation and having a laugh. Absolutely ridiculous film making. It isn't funny, because the lines that are supposed to…
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon 2021
The most fun I've had with a film in 2021. A neon drenched supernatural fish out of water film with a mind bogglingly great soundtrack. Amirpour's best film to date and also her most emotionally and stylistically satisfying.
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