I always appreciate a film that swings for the fences, even if it doesn’t really score a home run. Has a great premise that becomes a little too simplistic and falls into narrative fallacy in the latter half.
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Mickey 17 2025
5 years ago I had a weird dream where Stephen Yeun was hunting me and trying to murder me. I had forgotten than dream, until I saw him with a chainsaw about to hack a man apart. So thanks Bong Joon Ho.
Oh my god this was so much fun! I did not know what to expect going in, and that decision paid off. The plot strayed a bit in the latter half and I do wish there had been…
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The Brutalist 2024
Watching this during the inauguration of Trump was an incredibly surreal and uncomfortable experience.
It’s hard to lay out how I feel about this movie because there are so many inherent contradictions in it. It feels both grand and contained. Both deeply emotional and also cold. Perhaps it’s also because the two halves also have such different tones (not a bad thing).
Overall I liked it, but I felt let down by the second half based on the promise of…
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Conclave 2024
So melodramatic and so much fun! I did not go into this expecting to laugh at stuffy, old, self-serious men looking at cell phones or getting into Mean Girls levels of dramatics in cafeterias. Every time conservative Tedesco pulled out his lil vape I lost it.
Is this high art of film? Probably not. But it doesn’t need to be. Just hand me the popcorn and let me get back to my papal gossip.
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