Modest in its ambition but a cast firing on all cylinders and a kinda final film Coen Brothers vibe adds plenty. Nothing new as such but watching the craft on display and the pervading melancholy tone really worked for me. Liked this.
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Basic Instinct 1992
Eszterhas and Verhoeven put Hitchcock in a blender with De Palma and Friedkin with utterly tremendous results. Douglas has his will drained from him by a voracious Stone, giving a generational performance. Daft, beautiful, superbly plotted, just a great time.
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It is just terrific. Full of atmosphere and dread. The look of it belies the budget. Great work all around by a super cast. It digs deep into the soil of our country. Memory, physicality and passing on. Loved
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
There is a brilliant 90 minute film in the middle that takes in corporate greed, original sin and a low level insidiousness that is breathtaking. There are even Malickian flourishes. It's a bit of a mess outside of that alas. Gladstone is the shocked, bruised heart and deserves awards glory.
The lads are grand (when DiCaprio stops mugging he is great, de Niro is Colonel Sanders and a lot of malevolent fun). I even liked the ending but the proceeding…
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