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The Battle of Algiers 1966
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There is no music, no fanfare. We fade in on a grimy little room where an Arab-Algerian man -- stripped to his underwear -- sits in the centre, motionless, speechless. He has just been tortured. The year is 1957. Three French soldiers busy themselves about the room. One of them wipes the naked man's back with a towel. "Couldn't you have talked sooner?" asks one of the soldiers (it doesn't matter which) with a casual, disinterested air -- the first…
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Monkey Man 2024
"Monkey Man" was written, directed, and painstakingly brought to live during the late pandemic by Dev Patel. It's impressive it got made at all. Unfortunately, it's nothing extraordinary. The fight scenes are entertaining but nothing stands out in a market saturated by top-tier "John Wick" features. Patel's character is also quite one-note: he starts out angry and vengeful and stays that way the whole movie. If there's a character "arc" to be seen, it mainly involves the Monkey Man punching…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
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It's a confused mess of a film, and not in a good way. Imagine a live-action, Chinese-American "Rick and Morty" and you've got a pretty good idea of what you're dealing with. Something-something the whole multiverse is contained in an "everything" bagel (ha-ha), and maybe the real adventure is just doing laundry and taxes with the fellas, god what cringe!
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Never Let Me Go 2010
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While this movie doesn't reach the emotional heights of the novel it's based on, it still gets its core message across really well. The acting (especially Cary Mulligan), pacing, and cinematography are also pretty top-tier.
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