Completely serviceable, but not nearly enough complexity in the spycraft narrative or depth in the relationship exploration to really elevate it. Having a super cool intelligence guy who knows when you’re lying and who you’re sucking and fucking is kind of a suspense-killer unless he’s putting those skills to more complicated machinations than a dinner party game designed to instigate a self-incrimination.
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Juror #2 2024
At the center of this movie is a really effective morality drama about how individuals are constrained and disincentivized from acting in alignment with their conscience and broader values of things like “justice” by the perverse incentives of society’s structure like the so-called “justice system.” Hoult’s teary-eyed babyish face conveys a lot of this struggle, and a cast of supporting actors initially gave me the thrill of “oh hey it’s that guy!” which is really what going to the movies…
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father 2008
How to make a loving tribute to my murdered best friend? By putting a red overlay on a picture of his baby, then adding in the sound of gunshots, a scream, and dark string music. My mouth was hanging wide open at parts of this movie — not because of the real life horrors which occurred — but because of the alarming editing choices which present trauma and tragedy with the emotional delicacy of a YouTube jump scare video. I…
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399: Queen of the Tetons 2024
At the director’s Q&A she talked about how it was important for her to portray multiple perspectives on the grizzly-human conflict —how grateful I am that in an effort to do so she just let the ranchers speak for themselves and in doing so come across as totally unsympathetic assholes. There’s a much more defensible way to describe their point of view, but it’s so much better to just hear those bozos speak for themselves. Also found it interesting that…
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