It got the job done. Torres very good, but I can’t escape the feeling that she was held back by the script’s restraint. Open this up even 10% more and you’d probably be looking at an all-timer performance. Dutiful, restrained, respectable, and wholly unremarkable.
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Parthenope 2024
A movie that gives you Sorrentino’s takes on the Princess Leia ROJ bikini and Blood Meridian’s Judge Holden/2001 Star Baby, along with two perfect uses of Kilar’s “Exodus” (could’ve sworn it was at least 5 but nope 🤪). As stirring as it is deeply deeply silly.
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Emilia Pérez 2024
A mess, and not even a fascinating one. Just goes by in a blur with a bunch of half formed numbers that go nowhere. Bad performances all around, though Saldaña is closest to innocent. The ending is so many kinds of terrible. Not even a fun movie to rag on after a while because it’s just so boring. Well, aside from the Bangkok sequence, which deserves to become the stuff of infamy. Mexico should declare war on France for this.
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Asteroid City 2023
My mom fell in love with Anderson’s work over the one-two punch of Moonrise/Grand Budapest, and I know how much she was looking forward to this even as she realized she wouldn’t live to see it. In brief: The film opened one year ago on June 23, 2023. This was also the day she died. It was the first new movie I saw in a theater after she died.
In one of those surreal moments that nearly realigns your entire…
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