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  At Eternity's Gate 2018

  ★★★ Watched 17 Dec 2018

  An excellent performance by Willem Dafoe anchors what is otherwise a meandering profile. Brief sequences inspired by a piano driven score are lively and engaging, others seem to have been scored almost accidentally or without much design, as the score sort of tumbles in apropos of nothing. Its easy to assign some of the messier directorial choices to an ode to Van Gogh's obviously impressionistic and undisciplined aesthetic -- but it's hard not to shake the feeling that some of…

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  Widows 2018

  ★★½ Watched 25 Nov 2018

  Some signs that McQueen is pushing his own boundaries as far as storytelling in the medium is concerned, but significant growing pains abound. The plotting of the heist and series of reveals in the third act was disappointing and felt cheap and unearned. Basically anytime he was dealing with the genre components of the film I feel he struggled (the "recon" montage, the unfortunate scoring and the like). That being said the cast was excellent and with the exception of…

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