Love the panache, the sneak glances, the word play, the spies of it all.
Would literally let Cate Blanchett break my ribs.
She is so impeccably styled in this, it is unreal. My one note:
It really came into its own in the second half. As much as I love a No Exit style revealing dinner scene, the first of the two felt forcibly revealing (the whole hand stab thing, determining who the couples are,) in the moment, and upon…
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Black Bag 2025
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Thief 1981
Sometimes a movie that had cast an incredible spell upon first viewing, is unable to match it on the second.
THIEF is not one of those movies.
So many times throughout this there would be a shot, a sequence that made my family exclaim audibly from its simultaneous beauty and grit. The shimmering blues of rain, oil slicks spilling towards all encompassing flame, then neon, sweaty grit. A movie that is just as much an unparalleled heist, as it is…Translated from by
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Megalopolis 2024
One side of me wants to see this as the Quixotic effort of an aging master, to capture his ethos and enthusiasm for life in a bottle for future generations.
The other side of me says it’s closer to Across the Universe for guys whose dicks are “too big” for condoms.
The stakes feel incredibly low throughout, Coppola course corrects after every conflict, and every 30 minutes or so Lawrence Fishbourne provides some Matrix-style narration to help keep up with…Translated from by -
