Oops fell asleep. Similar experience to watching Footlight Parade where a very cool scene/shot is subverted by something very racist.
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Black Bag 2025
Fun, taut, middleweight kind of movie. Doesn’t have a ton to say, but that didn’t really bother me. In fact, I think if this movie had tried to say more about its chosen topics — surveillance, lies, and marriage — it would have been a dull bummer. Instead, it was frequently amusing, funny, and quite easy to understand for a potboiler spy film. The writing was nimble and well delivered. The cast was a bunch of pros. No bullshit from…
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The Brutalist 2024
In many ways, a remarkable, well-paced, and ambitious film that was pushing the “masterpiece” button in my head quite often. *However* it is slightly diminished by a few things: 1) the writing sometimes falters and becomes too literal-minded; 2) it sometimes feels inert and lacking in real emotion; 3) Corbet is making highly referential cinema that occasionally reminds you a bit too much of films that have done the same thing with more spirit and tact, and I personally enjoy…
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Megalopolis 2024
Wait, you people don’t like this movie? Okaaayyy…
All I’ll say is that I had to watch 66 previews for Captain America 13, Venom 5, Spider Man 11, Iron Man vs Stranger Things, etc before this and I’ve never been so grateful for the subsequent film in all of my life. You actually couldn’t have planned the previews for a film about the chaotic inanities of mass culture and an empire in shambles better than Regal Cinema did here.
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