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The Iron Claw 2023
A beautiful exploration of brotherly love. This movie adds real emotional depth to a field which can be very shallow (wrestling). Both my wife and I cried at the end.
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The Substance 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
An incredible film....until the end.
Probably the best body horror I have seen up until the ending; for the first 2/3rds of this movie, it had really something important to say about body dysphoria, aging, beauty standards, and the crushing expectations of a patriarchal society that only values contributions if you can make them money (in this case, pinned on the attractiveness of actresses).
Demi Moore nailed this, not only in the technical acting sense, but working it in with…
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Das Boot 1985
Watched the 3.5 hour directors cut with English dub and English subtitles.
I absolutely adore films that are made this way. They assume the audience is smart enough to figure out the technical details of what is happening without over explaining everything. What I was not able to infer, I enjoyed researching, such as the purpose of the goggles, and how the oxygen masks worked. I was impressed with the accuracy and attention to detail.
This movie absolutely nails the feel of boredom, terror and loneliness that one could imagine in this situation. The pacing was perfect, and the effects were expertly executed.
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 2022
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent shares a couple common threads with The Matrix 4. The first is Neil Patrick Harris, which is interesting enough on its own, but the bigger thread is the meta commentary on the current state of movie-making; while the The Matrix 4 blasts the corporate influence within the realm of a mega-blockbuster franchise, The Ubearable Weight of Massive Talent does it via calling out the process of movie making within the movie itself.
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