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30 Minutes or Less 2011
like the two teenage boys at the start of the movie, Eisenberg will promise you a good time then proceed to rob you of hope for 90 minutes or less, depending on how long you can sit through painfully flat stoner 'comedy'.
one star for the 2 or 3 chuckles that Swardson and McBride's shtick is worth.
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Raging Bull 1980
Jake LaMotta is the least likeable character I've ever cared about.
If there's insight to be gleaned from watching a man with a monstrous chip on his shoulder punch and bleed his way through life, it's that rage doesn't actually have a healthy outlet. Boxing doesn't help Jake release any frustration, it reinforces his animalistic tendencies and rewards him for them. Jake's animosity propels him to the heights of a champion in the ring, and dismantles his relationships piece by…
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Promising Young Woman 2020
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Emerald Fennel takes an interesting concept and dissolves it into a muddled and pointless sermon about misogyny that leaves you wondering if the writer/director has anything—anything at all—to say about gender relations that doesn’t boil down to “men are beasts, women are their prey.”
A Promising Young Woman begins as a promising young portrayal of revenge. Our heroine Cassie (portrayed by Carey Mulligan who is ever talented but strained under the weight of a bad script) had her life shattered…
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The Social Network 2010
When the trio of Jesse Eisenberg, writer Aaron Sorkin, and director David Fincher created the Mark Zuckerberg that appears in The Social Network I think they imagined his meek body language and permanent scowl to illustrate a thin suit of armor with which Mark chooses to face the world. It was necessary to build the character this way, but it also meant this type of outwardly wooden portrait had to find its meaningfulness—its interiority—from a source outside the actor. When…
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