This is becoming a staple in my class and getting better with each rewatch. Incredible patience and atmosphere, and impressively uses the violent spectacle of every alien invasion story we've ever seen to generate a constant, simmering suspense. Other than an embarrassing line reading from Jeremy Renner during what should be the emotional high point of the movie, I'm up to 5 stars on this one.
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Seven Samurai 1954
Very impressed with Mifune's athleticism.
This all time great and clearly influencial film didn't quite click with me on first viewing,
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The Brutalist 2024
I find this movie...intellectually stimulating.
The film left me a little cold at first, which is perhaps my response to brutalist architecture, but it grew in my estimation as my wife and I discussed it for probably 2 straight hours afterwards. I will need a few months of knowing this film before I anoint it with 5 stars, so for now I'll just drop the best line of the movie in here ("intellectually stimulating" was a close second):
"Everything that is ugly, cruel, stupid—but, most importantly, ugly—is your fault"
It's both completely misapplied and completely true. Some shame is worth considering.
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Emilia Pérez 2024
Well, I didn't know what Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez looked like, and now I do. That's about all I got from this.
It appears to very much be the combination of exploitative, nonsensical, and boring that everyone else on here has already said. Unless a movie can be a parody of itself, this does not work.
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