It's been an insane year and I've basically only watched one "awards season" movie, and I'm really glad it's this one. Serious, smart and wildly compelling film for adults. The kind of film they don't make much anymore because they try to turn it into a 10 episode HBO mini-series...but it works perfectly, sharply as it is. The cast is immaculate. Somehow has such real "weight" and intention to it that it has escaped most potential socio-political controversy for its ending.
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The Fall of the House of Usher 2023
The premise is fantastic, a cross of SUCCESSION with interwoven, modernized elements of Edgar Allen Poe stories and poems. The actual product is basically lowbrow trash. Entertaining at least, solid to have in the background if you’re avoiding succumbing to the likes of Love is Blind
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
…..That’s it? After all that time and all that investment, this is what Star Wars wants to be? A universe that demands reduction to a condescending highlight reel of the same dozen moments of its past? Its unifying metaphysical energy a hollow burden of birthright? That’s supposed to be enough?
For context, I think TLJ’s heights are among the franchise’s most memorable, but I recognize that it was an uneven film and flawed sequel. I had a lot of fun…
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Oppenheimer 2023
“Just know, it won't be for you. It will be for them.”
Staggering film.
Christopher Nolan makes the "3hr World War II historical biopic" in a way that is distinctively his own and elevates it to a brutal look at the psychological and moral burdens of American exceptionalism and the price of being a great man or a man who imagines himself to be great. It has the energy of a thriller, the production and sound design of a blockbuster…
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