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The Substance 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Having minimal dialogue, The Substance communicates largely through the camera with possibly the best cinematography and editing of the year guided by Moore's career best performance, in her quest for rejuvenation. Aggressively attacking the misogynistic and exploitative movie industry, the film explores the obsession of Elisabeth Sparkles, an isolated and antiquated actress with her bygone fame, and the lengths she goes to reclaim it resulting in her literal disassociation into Sue and herself through the titular drug, THE SUBSTANCE. The…
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A Real Pain 2024
Navigating Poland, the Jewish identity but more importantly the relationship between two cousins and their pains, A Real Pain brings us one of the rawest depictions of processing trauma and the world around us. Every frame in the film disassociates the viewer from the characters isolating them except in scenes where the dynamic between David and Benji which forms the crux of the film, is at its most vulnerable. Benji (played by the electric Kieran Culkin) without a doubt, is…
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Okkadu 2003
A true product of its time, a film that can never be remade again. In a film industry oversaturated with factionist backdrops, Okkadu is the pioneer which truly shows how strong of a driving force egotism and pride can be. Mahesh Babu and Prakash Raj here are operating in their prime along with Gunashekhar's stellar screenplay and direction, not to mention his superb framing of action. The film constantly keeps you on your feet with unending tension (while occasionally betraying…
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