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Recent reviews

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  Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973

  Rewatched 16 Sep 2024

  50th Anniversary Release

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  Rewatched 11 Jul 2024

  This is an abridged version of an essay I wrote about this film:

  
  Christopher Nolan occupies a rarified space in the entertainment industry, he is a film director with multiple critical and commercial successes. This makes Nolan a well-respected figure in Hollywood and film production studios give him allowance to make personal films on a massive scale. This is an unusual privilege in a cinema-industry built on comic book franchises. Nolan yields a great deal of power in the media…

Popular reviews

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  Old 2021

  Watched 22 Jul 2021 7

  Writer/Director M. Night Shyamalan has crafted a bold, auteurist vision in Old. His carefully directed cinematography in the skilled hands of Mike Gioulakis is not only technologically impressive but also a distinctive creative tool to communicate theme (the camera spinning from character to character like the hand of a clock), to obfuscate or reveal important narrative details (the kids faces out of focus or off-frame until their rapid aging is witnessed by their parents, tight close-ups revealing wrinkles) and clever…

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  Gemini Man 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Feb 2020 2

  Imagine if we saw these techniques being employed in some superhero films, or at least this level of creativity and originality.

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