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12 Years a Slave 2013
There are scenes in 12 Years that invoke horror so strongly I had to remind myself I wasn't watching that genre. My only complaint/ question about the movie: did we need Brad Pitt to step in as, literally, Jesus? The benevolent builder from up north? I understand he funded the movie, but damn.
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Contagion 2011
One question after watching Contagion: what did Gwyneth Paltrow do to incur Soderbergh's directorial wrath? Not since Janet Leigh's Psycho performance have I expected in earnest to follow a pretty blonde woman through whatever pretty-blonde-woman journey awaits her, only to have the auteur slaughter her unceremoniously. Gwyn doesn't even make it to Act 2.
Outside of its possibly regressive morality tale (a plague loosed upon the world by a loose woman: bad, Gwyn! Bad!), I enjoyed this film. A bizarrely comforting, things-can-always-be-worse scenario.
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Frank 2014
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Michael Fassbinder, despite being grade-A eye candy, wears a papier-mache head nearly the entire film. Even if the movie had been bad (it was great), you'd have to give the MF props for his absence of vanity.
(Now, if he wore the papier-mache head for Shame . . . I think I'd be a bigger fan of that film.)
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Locke 2013
Is there anything Tom Hardy can't do? He's the most violent prisoner in the U.K., a faceless super-villain, an action hero for the post-feminist world. He's Heathcliff, for Christ's sake.
And in Locke, he does construction management like no one has before: while driving, admitting infidelity and coaching an emotionally damaged woman during childbirth.
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