Impossible to summarize 21 years of anticipation and obsession into a review here. Going in, I knew I’d have thorough opinions about every line reading, costume design, riff choice, book revision, movement, shot, set, prop, lash, nail… Some friends may hear my theses on each of these subjects, but the rest of you are mercifully spared.
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Challengers 2024
Truly nothing happens in this movie. If you cut out the countless slow motion shots underscored by blaring club beats with nobody saying or doing anything (not even visual storytelling happening outside of the most basic subtext), you’d get a 30-second Uniqlo spot vaguely having to do with tennis cucking. For all the hype it got around homoeroticism, it ends up being just a below-average love triangle plot with less than nothing to say about any of its one-dimensional main characters. Why did Zendaya sign on for this? For a role that didn’t suit her in a movie that wasn’t good? What a waste of time.
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The Fall 2006
Every frame is literally a painting. One-of-a-kind storytelling — costumes, score, pacing, editing, acting. The best child acting I’ve seen in any movie by wide margin. Fantastic performances from everyone. Understated writing, perfect use of subtext and show don’t tell. Funny. Moving. It accomplishes everything it sets out to do, which in many cases is singularly ambitious. Visionary, iconic, superb.
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Ambulance 2022
adequately mindless fun (aside from the morally dubious resolution & character retcon in the final 10 mins)! many moments of absolute stupidity and enough twists & turns to keep me engaged. count the instances of product placement for a fun drinking game - i clocked nine.
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