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True Grit 2010
I was bracing for more Cormac McCarthy bleakness, but I found instead a prevailing sense of warmth and decency. True Grit is explicitly about how within the rough and often murderous living of the wild west, there are pockets of humanity, and that humanity is contagious. It's a joy to follow Mattie as she wins over or exhausts the most curmudgeonly sons-of-bitches to get closer and closer to getting justice for her father.
It's also funny without ever being ironically…
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Raising Arizona 1987
Really great to see the Coen Brothers' thematic and aesthetic tastes taking shape. Between this and Blood Simple I see the DNA for basically every other one of their films. Such a confident start.
I think there could have been more characterization for Holly Hunter's character, and just some more development to the main couple's bond. The characters generally feel more like sketches, the pieces in a screenplay that is smarter than it is emotionally arresting. I just found myself…
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales 2017
"Dead men tell no tales"
"man, i've got a tale for you!"
"you've got a tale? I've got a TALE"
"this will be a tale, lemme tell you"
"tell me what? a tale?""the British will rule the seas!"
"I'm (a vehicle for lazy and problematic token feminism) an empowered woman. You can tell because I like science, and the camera is perpetually on my breasts! Also, older men sexualize me!"
God, this movie was a fever dream. To answer…
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The Lighthouse 2019
I saw one trailer for this movie before seeing it and that was the extent of my exposure. I was deliberate in keeping myself in...the dark.
I was underwhelmed by that trailer. I enjoyed the look of the square frame, and the sheer amount of darkness in the black and white frame, and I have a casual obsession with Willem Defoe. But it looked like another story of the madness of isolation, just one lovingly dressed in the iconography of…
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