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A Real Pain 2024
We can now add Jesse Eisenberg to the growing list of millennials trying their hand at the whole-scale testing out of ye olde “auteur theory”, which is really just a fancy, film-nerd term for “I made a vanity project”. Luckily, this is not some masturbatory nothing of a film a la Garden State or literally anything Vincent Gallo has wrapped his gnarled, neo-con fingers around. Rather, it is a truly gorgeous, human, moving little picture that is entirely free of…
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Conclave 2024
Whodathunk that a thriller having to do with the selection of a new pope could be so unbelievably riveting? Certainly not Benedict XVI, because he be DEAD.
Anywutz, this film is a prime example of “how did they do this?” Perhaps moreso, it is an example of “how did they do this so well”, and “how did they managed to sustain such tension and intrigue in a film about the world’s biggest organization of paedos?” But in all seriousness, this…
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The Fabelmans 2022
Originally posted on Instagram on 3/8/2023:
I have a complicated relationship with Steven Spielberg. I wholly acknowledge that he is, for all intents and purposes, the grandpappy of the modern Hollywood blockbuster as we now know it, and the holy triumvirate of Dual, Jaws, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (not to mention ET and, of course, the first three Indiana Jones films) are among the greatest films of their kind. I would also venture to say that Schindler’s…
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Beau Is Afraid 2023
Originally posted on Instagram on 12/22/2023:
Beau is Afraid, wherein Ari Aster takes us on a three-hour journey into the very heart of his anxieties and mommy issues. Honestly, a lot of this hit rather close to home, for me. Now, Ari Aster and Robert Eggars are, in essence, the very reasons for which a forward-thinking production company like A24 exists, and it is largely due to them, The Daniels, Charlie Kaufman, and The Safdies that truly challenging, unique, personal,…
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