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Kneecap 2024
There's a quote from 20th Century Women I think about a lot that's helped me frame how I view certain works of art. It goes "Yeah, it's like they've got this feeling, and they don't have any skill, and they don't want skill, because it's really interesting what happens when your passion is bigger than the tools you have to deal with it." That's how I feel about this movie and the group it fictionalizes. At one moment I found…
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Black Bag 2025
Could have been a lot better. First off, what was up with the highlights? Were they shooting with an inch-thick pro mist filter? More importantly, apparently Koepp consulted with actual spies to write this movie; it certainly makes Black Bag feel more plausible, but I think it gets way too bogged down in procedural processes. By the time we're really clued into what the conflict of the film is, half of it is over, and the 'whodunnit' is quite obvious.…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Truly loved the performances (audibly gasped when John Lithgow and Brendan Fraser appeared more than halfway into the movie) and Scorsese's direction, but I don't think Eric Roth does it for me. He's like our living resident sprawling epic screenwriter, but between this, Dune, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and most notably Forrest Gump I find his writing frustratingly presentational. That is to say that I rarely find myself wanting to know what happens next scene-to-scene because he's more or less already told us. I was truly not bored once in this near 3.5 hour movie, but I also never leaned forward.
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The Fabelmans 2022
I found this profoundly moving in a way I did not expect, but rather than trying to channel that here I just need to say that i nearly cried laughing as soon as I realized Sammy’s sister was the Tammy Craps girl, I DID cry laughing at the casting choice for John Ford, and I also cried along the way for various other reasons. It’s like if Paul McCartney dropped another White Album.
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