I don't think I fully see the hype on this one. It's stylish, 100%, has some solid sequences, great visuals. But the protagonist is such a husk, I found it hard to remain interested in the proceedings.
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Smiles of a Summer Night 1955
Smiles of a Summer Night for me is a film with quite a few wonderful scenes that doesn't entirely come together. There's a slightly stuffy romantic farce at the center of the film that's playing against a more introspective, lyrical view of the characters involved. At points those are well blended -- the latter part of the film from the dinner on was a high point -- at others, the two instincts feel like they're at odds. In the end,…
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The Batman 2022
The Batman is an above-average super hero movie, which means that it is thoroughly mediocre. The tone and the visuals are Frank Miller through the lens of Se7en, taking the latter's rain-drenched, pitch-black cityscapes. This is to mostly good effect, and that effect is to remind you of better movies. The Batman wants to be topical and relevant, but it mostly turns out cringe. It wants an edge, but its PG-13 rating precludes that. It wants to be a thriller,…
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021
I was dragged along to see this and it reminded me why I do not go in for Marvel movies: extremely expensive and entirely empty spectacle. Shang-Chi is a slight divergence from as it awkwardly grafts the typical "save the world from a space monster" onto a half-baked family drama (albeit one put through the wringer of superhero exaggeration and paraded before us in such a discombobulated series of flashbacks that one is more likely to be nauseated than moved).…
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