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The Mauritanian 2021
An important story with an outstanding central performance, but with some creative choices that limited it's effectiveness.
Some of the shot choices (like combining differences in aspect ratio, depth of field and colouring for flashbacks) landed well with me, but others didn't quite do it. Depictions of torture might have benefited from letting the audience's imagination take the weight and an early use of handheld, which dedramatises scenes and lends a documentary edge, is largely dropped in favour of more standard approach.
However, I was very happy to hear Tanariwen make the soundtrack!
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The Big Lebowski 1998
It took me far too long to get around to watching this. I'm not sure at what point I realised that I wasn't supposed to be following what was going on. Loved it.
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Gone Girl 2014
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I'm not sure why, but I just don't find Gone Girl as affecting as most of Fincher's other films, despite the fact that his shots and sequences are clearly as meticulously crafted.
The first act really does it for me, but after the big reveal I struggle to get much out of the story. Amy is such an extremely manipulative and psychopathic character, that the toxicity of the central relationship ends up being too one-sided for it to have much…
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