I haven’t felt this split on a movie in a while. I knew the plot beforehand, so I set my expectations pretty high. My first thought was that this was Jake Gyllenhaal’s weakest performance, but by the end I realized it’s just that he’s playing a very strange character in two roles. I thought Michael Shannon and Aaron-Taylor Johnson stole the show in a negative way. Their amazing performances distracted from the mind game between Edward and Susan. Ultimately, I…
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The Social Network 2010
Definitely one of the best biopics despite taking a lot of liberties. At first I wasn’t a fan of the use of multiple timelines at once, but eventually I found its use to be quite good. I’m not sure why the genre of biopics is so disliked. I personally find them very entertaining, but I think it’s the more recent ones that have hurt their reputation…
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Oppenheimer 2023
I waited to watch this on my iPhone just as Christopher Nolan intended and I can definitely say this is close to the best biopic I’ve seen. The nudity was forced though, which isn’t typical of Nolan…
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The Last Samurai 2003
The fight choreography is really great, so is the scenery, and the story had me gripped from the beginning. Definitely one of Cruise’s best…
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