Fiddles about with digital doodads and interweb things for fun and profit. Wanted to be a nihilist but it was too exhausting.
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Strange Darling 2023
Nowhere near as clever or subversive as it thinks it is. Stellar cinematography and a central performance in desperate need of worthy material.
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023
Where to start with this disaster? Bogged down by scene after scene of tedious exposition, pointless characters and a primary antagonist with no discernible motivation or objective.
There are a handful of showstopping action moments that almost-but-not-quite compensate for the interminable grind of predictable dross that the rest of the film sags beneath. Littered with derivative character beats and incoherent cross-doublecross-triplecross shenanigans we’ve seen executed with vastly more suspense and competence a million times before.
There’s an enjoyable popcorn movie…
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Una 2016
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Una begins promisingly, introducing its titular character with a series of jarring cuts and juxtapositions between past and present day. The visual, near-wordless sequence suggests we're in for a vividly cinematic experience.
Unfortunately, it's not long before Una's stage-play ancestry lands with a thud. For most of the running time the action is confined to a series of increasingly contrived settings (the nadir being when Ray and Una are required to hide out in the cramped, intimate space of a…
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