The screenplay is not great -- the plot is barely sketched out, the dialogue is too often on-the-nose. Joan Fontaine is the best thing in the movie, but before long, her hidden nastiness becomes obvious and you just start to wonder why most other characters don't notice. And even when they do notice, they don't tell the oblivious husband, who's being taken for a ride.
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Predestination 2014
It's nice watching Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook, but their talents can't save a script that's all time-travel gimmick, no heart.
Also, fuck Heinlein.
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To the Stars 2019
This movie had so much going for it, so many lovely scenes early on, so much honest, difficult emotion, such an unusual and compelling set-up... well, I was really hoping for a better climax. But the last thirty minutes squanders all of it. It begins the moment the hairdresser and Maggie have a slightly gay interaction. This movie assumes that from that moment on, the house of cards has to come tumbling down. But most of it doesn't make sense.…
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Midsommar 2019
Finally watched it - Director's Cut. It's one of those movies where you can easily imagine scenes being cut or shortened - there's not much plot going on here - but doing so would only damage the film. It needs every minute for the escalating horror to fully manifest itself.
I'm usually pretty thick about guessing the endings of movies, but in this case I was fairly confident who would survive, and why, and I was right. So I don't…
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