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Skyfall 2012
A mess on every level, does a complete 180 on the subversion of Quantum of Solace in its presentation of public oversight as an obstacle, and is easily the most conservative film in the series, down to the villain making homoerotic and metaphorically incestuous advances towards Bond.
Dying at the fact that the head of British Intelligence has to use the Kevin McAllister method to reach the end of the film.
The awful experience of watching is exacerbated in that…
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The Ten Commandments 1956
Growing up homeschooled, one of my favorite things was getting to watch the annual network presentation of The Ten Commandments on ABC. Despite growing up in a Christian household, my favorite part of the film was the special effects of the plagues, burning bush, and so on. Coming back to it over twenty-five years later, I was really caught off guard by the ideology prescribed in the piece, not that it’s particularly shocking that it espoused a very American brand…
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten 2007
A whole star added for the quote it ends on
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The Substance 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Really, really wished it ended with Elizabeth using the cookbook to eat Sue, it would make it feel more like a fairy tale, and you could shave off 45 sloggy mins
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Midsommar 2019
As hollow as the body of the Wicker Man it seeks to emulate.
Making the audience physically uncomfortable is a cheap way to work. The extra bright editing choice is painful to behold, and once again camera moves are employed to the effect of exhausting the audience. It’s comparable to shouting in someone’s face and then taking credit for having made them feel something.
Aster is only bringing discomforting imagery to the table, images serving only as nonsequitur. a character…
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Chernobyl 2019
Reading Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell, I wasn't shocked to find that the people who owned and operated the energy industries colluded with one another to neutralize the power of the coal unions by shifting to oil, but I was caught off guard by how wrong I was in having previously explained to myself that the shift from coal to oil as being a matter of environmental impact. In my viewing of Chernobyl, I feel I came across a similar…
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