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The Brutalist 2024
This movie wants to be a Great Picture. It announces itself as a thing, a tome if you will, you should pay attention to. If it isnt clear enough, the runtime makes sure of that. And the thing is it does feel like a Great Picture (at least the first half) but somehow it just sort of wanders, it doesn't know what to do with this material, in a way The Brutalist is like The Van Buren Institute—they start off…
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The Trade 2023
Blossom Chukwujekwu needs to visit a chiropractor after the heavy lifting done here. The setting presented here is one that seems to be constantly shifting, a sort of kaleidoscopic box of genres. It wants to be serious, it wants to retain the “Nigerianness,” it wants to do socio-political criticism without assaulting the audience with overtly banal and conspicuous symbolism, it wants to retain its humour, etcetera. What we get is an admirable coalition, though not without its flaws. The elephant…
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First Reformed 2017
Thought this was just going to be a modern remake of Bergman's Winter light + Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest et al but it's so much more than that. Can't believe it took this long to finally see it.
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JFK 1991
The big one. One of the more known gruesome pieces of American History.
JFK paints a very fluid albeit grainy image of the pieces, the strokes that make up the conspiracy that sent the president to the grave. Kennedy is reduced to something of a myth, an enigma that can't be possibly solved. A president (status), shots in daytime with bodies punctuating the scene(visibility) yet it still baffles.
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