trust PTA to take 2.5 hours of information and still cocoon it in enough style to make the complex hypnotic and intoxicating
Owen Wilson should be in every auteur’s movie at least one time
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Inherent Vice 2014
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Challengers (1951)
Robert Walker gives the best Hitchcock performance bar Perkins. Skin crawling, sexy and scary in every frame
The shot of the turning heads at the tennis match is a top tier shot from any Hitchcock, as is Bruno on the stairs in WashingtonTranslated from by
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The Brutalist 2024
A giant.
I essentially jogged out of the theatre, elated. I texted my friends in a fit of excitement and (potential) hyperbole.
“I have found the next American masterpiece.”
“We might have a classic on our hands friends.”
“The Oscar race is upended before it truly began.”I have waited a couple of days for my ecstasy to subside, and upon calming down my admiration for this film has only slightly waned.
This is too dense a piece for me…
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Anora 2024
Anora exists in institutions.
From the strip club to The Strip, the bedroom to the courtroom, altar to annulment.
It is in the settings most constrained that Anora abandons all constraint. As the characters unravel to hilarious racing-heart effect in the face of the expected dogged decorum, it makes us ask what’s more ridiculous: the breaking of the rules, or the rules themselves?
Monotonous mishaps play the role of banana peels in a cartoon - parking tickets, tow trucks, door…
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