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Beautiful Boy 2018
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Astonishing. Very impressively directed and even more brilliantly performed by Steve Carrell and Timothée Chalamet. “Beautiful Boy” is a film that should be doomed to fail, either by directing it to be “raw”, natural, gloomy and didactic or soapy and melodramatic. Truth be told, the film comes dangerously close to something like that but never plunges into the creative abyss.
“Beautiful Boy” also doesn’t attempt to be a case study, it’s rather a most sincere attempt to grasp the “topic”…
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The Death & Life of John F. Donovan 2018
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Painfully misjudged in pretty much every way and particularly so as this is clearly Dolan’s most personal and intimate subject. This should’ve worked as a film but not for one with a budget as high as Dolan received for “The Death & Life of John F. Donovan”, with the reason being that he can’t possibly balance all the high-profile cast members equally. Dolan tries to give space and opportunities to shine for all of them but it’s too much of everything.…
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Bottoms 2023
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“Bottoms” is a huge disappointment in how it fails at key aspects of what a comedy is and should be.
Of course, that term and what it entails should bend and adapt with time but in cinema history, rarely has a mainstream-budgeted, theatrical comedy been this bland.
Comedies live by a tonality, a broad spectrum of emotions that include more than just a non-stop riot of laughter. Indeed, every laughter should equal a quieter, more reflective moment (the same in…
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Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire 2023
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Zack Snyder toys around with one concept too much and one idea too little in what is in its current form yet another big-budget blockbuster with a supposed originality. All of this is utterly strange as apparently a “completely different version” of the film exists, according to Snyder, yet Netflix, a streaming service that doesn’t exclusively cater to family-friendly audiences, released something that’s no different from a classic PG-13 cut-down theatrical cut… although without a theatrical release.
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