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Queer 2024
"I want to talk to you... without speaking."
When I first saw marketing for Queer, I (rather shamefully) didn't know who William S. Burroughs was. What I did know is that Guadagnino, Kuritzkes and Mukdeeprom's previous collaboration is one of my favourites of the year, and I assumed this would be something similar: a beautiful-looking, fast-paced erotic thriller about sexual obsession. Had I known anything about Burroughs - about his life, about the Beat generation, about his writing, about his…
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Napoleon 2023
Though its commitment to historical inaccuracy is controversial, there is something about Napoleon that feels liberated. Buoyed by its wry, fickle performances and studded with some of the most stunning battle sequences in modern film history, it blasts through a whistle-stop tour (as whistle-stop as you can be with a runtime of 157 minutes) of the life of the first and greatest Emperor of the French.
Free of any reverence for historical fact, Scott turns instead to its inverse: the…
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Tetris 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I'm already suspicious of the sudden glut of films which apply the form of the artist-biopic to the subject of executives, an ominous trend which I can only attribute to the content well running so dry that studios are reaching hard for recognisable IP for audiences to latch onto. The trouble is, in a time where exhaustion with corporations feels like it's at an all-time high (although, granted, things have got worse since 2023), these old-school odes to capitalism ring…
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Mickey 17 2025
Certainly a lower-tier Bong rip on a textual level, but it's a testament to his enormous sense of humour and empathy that he can mine such magic out of what is undoubtedly a very messy script. Mickey 17 is bombastic, freewheeling and, at times, unfocused - a far cry from the structural perfection of Parasite - but I'd argue that after creating arguably the film of the decade, if not the century, you can forgive a guy for cashing one…
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Doctor Who: The Star Beast 2023
PROS:
- Leagues better than Chib-writing, but a monkey eating a typewriter would be better than Doctor Who: Flux.
- That Disney money was put to good use: the visuals and practical/CGI integration are extraordinary.
- It's naturally delightful to see Tennant and Tate back and they are so good at what they do!
- The trans representation is a sweet touch, though more than a little hamfisted at times.
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Oppenheimer 2023
Atop a dusty mesa in New Mexico, the American flag flies over the spot where the agent of ultimate destruction was conceived. A crowd of soldiers and scientists cheer at the prospect of a city reduced to ash. J. Robert Oppenheimer, through the harrowed eyes of Cillian Murphy, looks on in horror at the fruits of his work.
Oppenheimer is an epic in every sense. Rich, dense, forceful, set to a thunderous score from Ludwig Göransson. Nolan imbues his non-linear…
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