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The Lost Daughter 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"Children are a crushing responsibility."
This has been more criticized than it deserves. Ultimately, I think this is a very good debut film from Maggie Gyllenhaal. The only complaints I have is:
(1) there are some portions of the film that feel like a really long simmer that doesn't really go anywhere, and
(2) I wish there was more exploration of the things that contributed to Leda feeling this was. Was she pressured into having children? Was she blindly following…Translated from by -
Clemency 2019
Alfre Woodard deserves more recognition for her role here. Unfortunately, the movie suffers from bad pacing and a fragmented story. The husband’s storyline felt like an unnecessary addition to me. I also find the story of the sympathetic warden who suddenly (years into her career) starts getting emotionally damaged from her work. Executing someone isn’t a thing that slowly grinds on you, it would destroy someone like this almost immediately I feel like. Of course what do I know I’ve…
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Downhill Racer 1969
Not a huge sports movie fan and even among sports movies I’d say this is subpar. Some of the POV shots skiing down the courses were pretty interesting and I imagine fairly innovative for the time.
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