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A Complete Unknown 2024
Some incredible scenes where Chalamet and
Barbaro and Norton do career best work but barely a movie. Mostly a concert compilation occasionally interrupted by people saying things like “So, Bob Dylan, what are we?” or “Bob, don’t you remember we broke up (off screen)?”Translated from by -
Mission: Impossible II 2000
I've probably watched this from start to finish more times than literally any other movie ever made and you know what? It's still really bad.
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The Substance 2024
Incredible. Stupid. Incredibly stupid.
The message is blunt, but less of a slap in the face and more a knife that can't cut. It is body horror for the sake of cruelty and oh-my-god-did-they-go-there and nervous laughs. That is to say, when it sheds any facade of actually being about something and instead decides to be as gross and as moralizing as possible, it is a blast. I'll excuse how dumb it thinks the audience is (though Quaid's character literally…
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011
Fincher is always described as having a superlatively sick and twisted mind. He has, to his credit, consistently shocked audiences with his violence, his wryness, and his Gen X cynicism, no matter the decade. But I had never been truly unnerved, or honestly wowed, by his depravity or edge.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the outlier then. I love Fincher, and his hits (Se7en, Zodiac, Network and on) especially so. They all work for me, for his technician-ship,…
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