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A Real Pain 2024
Feeling torn about this because on the one hand I think it’s a well performed character study with naturalistic dialogue and I usually eat that tf up. Especially with a character like Benji in tow (j’adore) I feel like I should’ve been way more invested than I was. So here’s the issue for me: we don’t get any real stakes introduced until about 2/3 in, and can that really bode well for the pacing? Probably not. While the characters give…
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Emilia Pérez 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Um. Okay.
Going into this tipsy and entirely blind was the best way to go. The concept is genuinely interesting so I can see how that log line grabbed people and got this film made. That being said the way the story develops beyond that is flat and uninteresting. Spends so much time deifying Emilia, hardly ever explores her morality/guilt which could’ve been the most interesting part of her character. It’s just like oh she’s a Saint (no nuance, I’m…
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