At this point, favorites section can be considered probably any 10-15 films from what I've rated 5 stars.
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Paddington in Peru 2024
This picture being the worst of the trilogy is expected! New director, new writers, losing a core cast member, all fine. The premise itself can work fine enough as an excuse to give Paddington a new venue of adventure. What's more strange is how this picture succeeds and fails.
We spend far too much time with our boat crew considering our other characters don't particularly get to bounce off them well, but the sequences where Banderas talks to the portrait…
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And Then We Danced 2019
It's a yearner. It's a decently made one, with deliberate attention to environments, color symbolism, the admittedly cheaper handheld emphasized as a pathway to more realistic portrayals of the relationship. But it's a yearner, and you know what? The yearnee is kinda boring, and the girlfriend just exists.
More important than moving or entertaining.
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Charade 1963
I despise this. It is abundantly self-satisfied, Hepburn and Grant portraying persona caricatures in a desperate attempt to salvage this cinematic carcass. Their counterparts, with possible exception of Mathau, are either incapable of setting the tone or found themselves instructed by an at-the-time incapable director.
The "tongue-in-cheek" humor is physically painful, possessing neither the wit or timing to once deliver. These are strung together outtakes of slapstick, in a movie never serious enough to provide value via contrast.
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
Lands amongst all-time disappointments for me.
There is a significant structural problem here. There's a movie about Sharon Tate, a movie about Manson shenanigans, a movie about Brad Pitt driving around, a movie about DiCaprio trying to adjust in his acting career, and a movie about DiCaprio and Pitt bro-ing out. After almost 3 hours, not one of these feels gelled out except perhaps slightly the last point, and not nearly to my satisfaction.
I checked my watch the first…
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