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Jason Bourne 2016
Incoherent plot that goes nowhere. You simply cannot kill the director of the CIA a few minutes after said director orders the assassination of Mark Zuckerberg from the HVAC system of a Vegas conference hall and just… wrap things up with a neat girlboss epilogue (I will tolerate no Alicia Vikander slander though). Everything looks fake. Hilariously topical, in the worst way. “Don’t you want to stick it to the corrupt organizations that govern society”; “Worse than Snowden”. A Silicon Valley (HBO) character does not belong in a spy movie.
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Companion 2025
Dreadfully surface-level, which would be fine if the plot was engaging, but it’s just all over the place, tonally. And the plot holes are more like crevasses.
The stakes of the situation should be incredibly high but the movie’s refusal to engage with the implications of its subject made it feel hollow and uninteresting.
We’re given little insight — beyond cliche — into the interiority of the robots, Josh and Eli are caricatures rather than fully-realized characters (in the vein…
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God's Own Country 2017
Gorgeously shot and meticulously crafted. I can’t speak to the authenticity of the Yorkshire depicted, but it’s no small feat to create a world that feels lived in. No small feat, either, to so effortlessly channel the desperation and the yearning of John. The forms of masculinity evoked here — specific and contingent ones, to be sure — didn’t feel stereotyped, or fenced in by sign and symbol, nor was it sugarcoated: it was simply presented, as-is and without judgement.…
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