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Warfare 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Ray Mendoza’s constant reference to the veterans remembered through the film as his friends— as opposed to any sort of neutral military moniker— spoke to overwhelming nature of “frathood” he felt with the fellow seals that he seemed to almost revel in? I perceived the responsibilities of recanting the story of “Warfare” as strictly split with Garland handling the outside perspective while giving enough respect to let Mendoza’s straightforward and honest depiction take the wheel, which is perhaps…
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All of Us Strangers 2023
the ending throws away every good thing the movie does. which is awful cause that 20 minute or so sequence in the club and after was probably some of the best filmmaking I’ve ever watched. I’m really not sure what that ending is supposed to add thematically asides from completely recentering the movie. would have given it 5 stars otherwise. very upset cause it’s so emotionally in touch in a way that’s perfectly complimented by the beautiful cinematography but the awful plot spoils everything.
maybe I’ll change my mind later who knows! for now it is what it is.
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The Brutalist 2024
just as much (if not more) of an israel movie as it is an immigrant movie and an architecture movie so I’m not sure how that aspect was seemingly left out of all the marketing for this film
does the last scene absolve the film of its Zionist implications? It does directly show how art and pain is often bastardized and adopted beyond the originators control
very sympathetic to Holocaust survivors with its framing of Israel’s allure, while mostly implicating…
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