Continuing my Sean Baker tour, this one’s a bit long, but that’s a quibble…making an absolutely predatory dirtbag the protagonist is interesting enough, but making him curiously charming is ballsy as hell.
Zero gators, one Lonny.
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Anora 2024
Hard to add to this film’s accolades or find any complaints…when everyone in it is firing on all cylinders, a major talent arrives in Mikey Madison, the barely verbal goon Igor is the most thoughtful and compassionate character in the whole movie, you’ve got…well, a pretty damn good film.
Zero gators, several Armenians.
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Napoleon 2023
Pro: Ridley Scott still knows how to direct battle scenes, and Waterloo/Austerlitz look amazing.
Con: is this, maybe, a satire? “You think you’re so great because you have BOATS!” (Not sure this I actually a con, per se, but it’s certainly a question)
There’s allegedly a four-hour version of this floating around out there, and I can simultaneously see it as an utter waste of time and a must-see.
Zero gators, one horse getting absolutely chest-smashed by a cannonball, which drew from me a deeply inappropriate laugh.
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BLUE EYE SAMURAI 2023
Listen, there are many cool things here—the animation style, the writing (by and large), the voice acting (though Randall Park has a little bit of “fingernails on the chalkboard of the brain” thing going for me), but even if all that was subpar, including a scene where a samurai fights a giant WHILE TRIPPING BALLS with a Japanese version of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” banging away in the background…as the French say, j’approve.
Zero gators, one Ringo.
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