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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008
I had forgotten so much about this movie since originally seeing it in the theater, and I have to say that a David Fincher fable is pretty enthralling.
I enjoyed this more than I did the first time around, and despite some of the CG looking a little… obvious, it’s handled with Fincher’s typical fastidiousness, so it ends up feeling more grounded compared to some of the modern examples of CG aging/de-aging that often rip us right out of the…
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Presence 2024
Wildly effective reframing of the haunted house film. Not particularly scary or unsettling, but tightly paced and presented as far more grounded than what we typically see in the genre. Creative cinematography, some inconsistent performances (though Chris Sullivan was terrific) and a story that stuck the landing.
Great film.
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Iron Man 3 2013
Upon rewatching, I had to update my original two star review to a four star. This movie is excellent, and it has aged very well. One of the most compelling and thoughtful MCU films.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021
That’s it? That’s what four years of people insisting that Snyder’s creative vision needed to be seen? We get this four hour mess of self-indulgence and scattered narrative?
I’ll give it points for some beautiful shots, but this is the pinnacle of Snyder’s style over substance approach to filmmaking. If you cut out all the gratuitous slow-motion, it’d be two hours and probably less intolerable. What a disaster. Completely unlikable characters. Terrible soundtrack. No narrative cohesion.
How can a movie…
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