Not sure everything about the ending works for me but it is mostly prickly in ways I found challenging rather than cheap. Otherwise, a very compelling tale about the malleability of truth/reality, the desire for certainty, and the things we choose to believe. Great performances from Depardieu and Nathalie Baye.
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The Brutalist 2024
Hilarious for a film whose positive aspects all squarely lie in “the journey” as opposed to “the destination” to insist so aggressively on the latter.
Because there’s surely a lot to like and admire, if perhaps not outright love, along the way: Part 1 is immensely compelling; the film grapples with the Jewish diaspora, the feeling of being unmoored, used but never respected, in a nuanced fashion; Brody, Pierce, and later Jones all give layered performances; many shots are striking;…
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Carry-On 2024
*Insert joke about preferring to be stuck in a multi-hour long TSA line to watching this film*
Bateman’s pretty good and has a few enjoyably Michael Bluth-like lines that made me chuckle. With that out of the way…
Hideous to look at (shallow focus with a glossy high definition sheen that creates a near uncanny valley effect at times). Moronically plotted (nearly nothing in this movie makes logical sense). Rarely witty or tense nor generally bonkers enough to keep one’s…
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Two Days, One Night 2014
How incredibly kind people are until you actually need something from them. Or how incredibly kind people are when you actually need something from them. Is this film naively positive about the goodness of humanity or just starkly realistic? Both?
Who would have thought watching a person have the same conversation a dozen times could be so utterly engrossing? When there are as many subtleties and variations as there are here, nothing feels even remotely repetitive. Basically, a bunch of…
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