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The Glorious Adventure 1922
Pretty sure I just got thirst-baited by a 100-year old movie poster into watching a fairly incoherent adventure where the actor in question spends the whole movie like this. Still, full color in 1922! That's fun!
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The Astronaut Lovers 2024
I know Marco Berger has made this exact movie at least four times, but I'm gonna keep falling for it. Two things Berger still does better than basically anyone else on the planet: conveying how entire relationships are carved from how and when people choose to look at each other and showcasing the trashy bro energy that queer men can bring to the table when they're feeling insecure and unsure
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All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
Maybe it was inevitable that I was gonna watch this with a scalpel in hand, given my dissertation is literally about media representations of World War I, but I can't help but feel like this is a pretty catastrophic failure of adaptation and reinvention. At the very least, it lays bare some of the ineffable machinery that makes it almost impossible to make an Anti-War film in the context of the war genre. I'm no expert, and it's kind of…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
When he was asked why he made a shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, Gus Van Sant replied "now no one else has to." There's value in creating a project that so thoroughly salts the earth around it that anyone who wants to follow the same path has to work long and hard to explain why.
I don't disagree with the reviews saying that this movie has nothing to add to the conversation about the banality of evil other than to underline…
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