hard not to be disappointed by a move from parasite -- an outrageously sharp social critique fueled by bong's tight and fluid constructions -- to this movie, whose satire is dulled by sprawling second-half pacing and rather explicit and straightforward commentary. there's certainly some pieces here that work, like the opening compilation of the other mickeys' deaths, the romance between mickey and nasha, and pattinson's whole performance, but unfortunately, after driving back from the theatre I am primarily thinking about…
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
"everything is about sex except sex, which is about power"
a hazy sequence of dreams and attempted awakenings where the unleashing of repressed desire reveals the dysfunction under the surface of a comforting domestic life, guides the audience to a world of distilled voyeuristic exploitation so deeply rooted in extreme class differences that no one can even try to challenge it, and ultimately forces that domestic world previously made so alienating to be the only source of refuge from such corruption and powerlessness... merry christmas, I guess?
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Saltburn 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
there's a moment early in Saltburn where oliver encourages a peer to focus on the substance of his essay rather than its style. in retrospect, I find this comment odd, having taken place in a movie lacking real substance. Saltburn, as I understand it, presents a few key ideas, none of which I find very substantial: that shy men can be weird perverts, that the ultra-rich are often elitist, and that the upper-middle class can be destructive in their ambitions…
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Deadpool & Wolverine 2024
sure, Deadpool & Wolverine has endlessly bland landscapes that beg the question of whether the $200 million budget is part of a money laundering scheme, awful and undeserved attempts at sentimentality in an otherwise snarky script, or constant references to better works that underline its flaws, but I could forgive some of those problems had this movie been even slightly funny or entertaining. reynolds, levy, et al. desperately want to be provocative yet remain bound by the needs for a summer…
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