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Death of a Unicorn 2025
The CollegeHumor version of a Yorgos Lanthimos movie, and it’s somehow even dumber than that sounds. Also, someone needs to explain to me why so many of today’s filmmakers are allergic to contrast. This movie is lit like someone adjusting the brightness levels on a TV.
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The Bling Ring 2013
For the first time, Sofia Coppola seems to have made a film that acts as a worthwhile statement as opposed to an agreeable sentiment. She's made films about materialism before, but THE BLING RING, in its depiction of privilege in the age of access and technology, irreverently, even brilliantly, demystifies fame and erodes long held conceptions of celebrity. "Access," I think is the essential word in considering the film's overall intent: The access provided by negligent parents to prurient, meddlesome…
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There Will Be Blood 2007
This movie is great because it’s not an allegory for anything. It’s about exactly what it’s about. Even the “symbolic” stuff people like to reference — the oil that covers Plainview is like the blood of Christ; the wells he builds are like big capitalistic dicks penetrating the land, or whatever — comes from over-reading rather than over-writing. PTA expands the character study to dizzying heights and respects the audience enough to not pull any punches on how he feels about the balance between ambition and greed.
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