Bong Joon-Ho is about as reliable a director as they come when it comes to making good movies. Only SNOWPIERCER and OKJA are a little disappointing but neither are bad movies. MICKEY 17 is better than those and has a vibe closest to his BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE. MICKEY 17 sees Bong’s bravura direction in the service of what initially seems like simply a saucy black comedy, but the story gains more resonance as it tackles dealing with human loss,…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
They say write what you know and apparently Scorsese only knows about white male criminals and he goes to that well again in this story about the murders of Native Americans in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Before a rewrite, Scorsese lamented, “I realized I was making a movie about all the white guys.” Ironically, the end result is still a movie about all the white guys. The only major Native American character is Mollie Burkhart and even she more or…
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Past Lives 2023
This is one of those indie films where the script needed a few more draft revisions but got produced too early. The entire dull first half of the film is used to set up the more interesting second half, but the setup is done in a lazy, meandering manner and is rendered redundant when it gets recapitulated by a character in exposition in the second half. Where emotional intimate connections are needed to establish relationships for later resonance, we get…
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