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The Constant Gardener 2005
Perhaps the skepticism sparked on me by the first hour of The Constant Gardener is well deserved in the face of a distant, contrived Fiennes and a unnaturally unsympathetic Rachel Weisz in her embodiment embarassing Western activism. Meirelles direction is still diffuse between the resouding universality of Cidade de Deus and the Soderberghian political melodrama of Traffic and Syriana, at times a bit inconsistent in his approach. I still believe its feeble global conspiracy is rather an uninspiring layer on…
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Mickey 17 2025
So misguided across its second half it’s hard to stay with how well this starts off. Similarly to Snowpiercer, there are too many blank spaces left out and certain shallowness that makes it impossible to take its political commentary too seriously, something I’ll never be able to grasp considering it comes from the guy who made what us, for me, the most compellingly nuanced and insightful auteurial take on class struggle I’ve seen in recent years. But Bong’s cruel approach…
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The Brutalist 2024
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We understand architecture as a reflection of societies, not as individuals, as no one can speak for a man's secrets. In the mines of Carraca, the marble remembers the story of the partisans who resisted the Fascist regime, but their names have been forgotten. In Venice, the canals erode the rock upon which lie statues immortalizing the life of great heroes, their faces barely recognizeable and covered in mildew. No man can explain his existence, because often, not even them…
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974
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They don't make movies like this anymore. Only that, actually, they don't make movies like this anymore. Indescribable camaraderie maundering so radically unique and weird it had to actually happen in real life. The rip-off of the rip-off of the rip-off of the rip-off until it becomes this formless "fucking hippie motherfuckers" version of Easy Rider which is also not like Easy Rider at all. My man Michael Cimino had to actually meet Thunderbolt and Lightfoot otherwise I cannot explain…
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