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A Real Pain 2024
There’s something familiar about the blend of the wildly funny and dark familial sadness in this Jewish family comedy that explores Jewish history and trauma. It’s giving David Sedaris, and it’s instantly recognisable as a type of American export. That isn’t to say it isn’t incredibly poignant and intelligent at times. But something about it tastes exactly how it was designed to taste, like a prepackaged spice mix, which keeps it from landing as hard as it could have done.…
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The Brutalist 2024
This is a real Rorschach blot of a film. What one reads into it says as much as oneself as it does about the film. Unlike so many recent blockbusters (think The Substance), it doesn’t offer easy thematic resolution. What is the film about? Lives do not resolve themselves easily into themes.
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Some Nights I Feel Like Walking 2024
Some Nights brims with a queer energy, sometimes misdirected, that makes it a compelling watch, though it’s unclear beyond the obvious beauty of the film and its actors, whether the hinted-at trauma and grief have been given more than a cursory scratch.
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Kinds of Kindness 2024
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest excursion is certainly divisive. Before I went to watch it, a friend texted to tell me how much he didn't like it. When I posted the poster, someone replied "worst film 2024". I'm here to disappoint these folks by saying I did like it, and quite a bit. I relished its weirdness, but the human impulses for domination and devotion it explores are not at all outlandish. They are even commonplace. How often has one wished for…
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