This movie is saved by beautiful shots, incredible acting, and a great score. I expected this movie to be right up my alley being a dialogue based drama/mystery that is based in a church setting. However, my expectations were killed when I found out that the big corruption reveal was less groundbreaking than most of what is seen in the real world of politics today. It is also difficult to be invested in the story when each antagonist gets no…
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The End of the Tour 2015
I can’t speak to how well this represents David Foster Wallace. I watched this partially to inspire me to make an attempt at reading Infinite Jest. It definitely succeeded in that but I was not expecting to be grabbed by this in the way that I was. This movie (being almost entirely dialogue) is quote after quote about finding yourself in the rat race that is the American culture. I’ll be back in a few months when I finish Infinite Jest.
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A Real Pain 2024
A breath of fresh air. Laughed, cringed, and almost teared up during a single scene multiple times. Kieran and Jesse portray the realities of being human so well. Its greatness is in its simplicity but there are also layers to this that I don’t think I’ve fully uncovered yet. This film wrestles with some incredibly deep questions about pain and grief and how we face these feelings both personally and along side those closest to us. Even with all of this, I still wish this film went a little deeper in the final minutes.
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Carry-On 2024
If I had a nickel for every time a movie was made about a government security worker stopping a crew of mastermind criminals, in awesome fashion, to save their significant other (and many others) on Christmas Eve, I would have two nickels… which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
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