The place to start is that there is nothing like this movie. One actor, one location, one scene, for the duration, playing out a quiet drama. This should not work under any circumstances, which is why no one is crazy enough to try. Imagine accepting the challenge of taking this bare bare skeleton and packing more human meat onto these bones than most movies could ever dream. Make it look like Collateral, sound like Ex Machina, feel like Margin Call,…
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London 2005
London is a symbol for God, or belief in anything. Syd is a hopelessly lost soul because the only thing he ever believed in was someone he didn’t know how to love and eventually pushed away. He is condemned to drown in his own toxic anxiety, depression, and rage because he thinks faith and spiritual connection are silly and wrong, but also seemingly ineffective. He doesn’t think the human condition can be solved or even endured.
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Beirut 2018
Tony Gilroy is the Jon Hamm of screenwriters. Jon Hamm is the Tony Gilroy of actors. Don Draper and Michael Clayton are two of the most important works of 21st century art, and while we see hints of that brilliance elsewhere from these guys, it would be really nice if they could ever match that level of quality again. First, they’d have to try.
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Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years 2025
Might be the only coherent political mind alive, which is to say, mostly disengaged occasional bomb-thrower. The KKK in the HOV lane bit is terrific, as well as the dudes dropping dead bit.
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Rebel Ridge 2024
Lessons from this movie:
1. Thank you for your service. Just like 12 Years a Slave, the injustice is not the injustice; it’s the fact that a man who SHOULD be exempt from injustice had to improperly suffer what is acceptable to non-servicemen and/or more belligerent (Tyreek Hill yesterday!) than our Brave Stoic Veteran here. The fact that he is Black is never explicitly stated, but it’s all-too obvious until…they find out he’s actually Green! Had they only known!
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The Seventh Seal 1957
Definitely seems to hit much harder if you are religious, which I am not. The tragedy of losing God from your heart is hard to identify with if you were never forced to carve out space for him by your elders and/or community.
I was ready for a 90-minute conversation with Death, but got a scattered 20-30 minutes of seriousness surrounded by an hour of unserious unfocused peasant nonsense. 12 Angry Men is such a shining example of doing less…
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