first chunk is great, music and lighting gorgeous, but as it goes on, felt too cruel for comfort
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Les Misérables 2019
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Why would you make a film set in the banlieues in 2019 from the perspective of cops? This is patronizing, didactic garbage. We have all seen this movie before, it's paint by numbers. The Bad Cop, the Nicer Cop Who Fucks Up, and the New Guy. The new guy here being an empty audience surrogate white guy who mostly just looks wide eyed at How Things Happen in the Hood. Then there are the power figures - the crook, the…
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014
indulgent crap, hated it. Michael Keaton smirked through the whole thing in a role built for him, basically doing nothing. this ground was already covered much better in All About Eve and Opening Night.
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