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Cosmopolis 2012
Today you are crémed by the master Andre Petrescu, the pastry assassin!
I admire the ambition of making a film so uncompromisingly inaccessable and aggressively cerebral, but unfortunately I didn't really glean any powerful insights from the very glossy and heady dialogue, and that is all of what the movie is. Liked Paul Giamatti a lot though, and Rpat is very strong though I kind of wish he had done this a few years later as a more evolved weirdo…
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Memories of Murder 2003
Fuck, I don't know.
An absolutely superb detective story inside one of the most supremely beautiful movies I've ever seen. The color and light in this movie are unlike anything else, and it's filled to the brim with face-meltingly phenomenal frames and sequences, just consistently amazing blocking from end to end. The enormity and scale of the quarry and the factory, the yawning maw of the train tunnel, the waving golden fields of rice. Genuinely striking sequences of chaos: both…
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Mickey 17 2025
Although sometimes heavy on narration and flat-handed exposition, normally things I lament in novel adaptations, RPat's little guy voice is sooo much fun that it never feels like a chore, plus the narration is actually majorly in service to the character which is an often missing but crucial element. Absolutely a perfect role for Rob considering it seems his main objective in life is to be The Scrungler, and he delivers so wonderfully. I could watch Naomi Ackie all day,…
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Nosferatu 2024
Eggers' commitment to meticulous verisimilitude pays off every time the camera starts to float unnaturally, every moment Orlock's talon comes into frame -- the way the supernatural hits in a world that feels so real and convincing is just unparalleled. He also manages to accomplish a worthwhile and captivating expansion of the Dracula story, now as much about the trauma of childhood mental illness, the guilt and self-hatred of the groomed, the turmoil of female desire in a world that…
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