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Opus 2025
5 billion lines of expositional dialogue to explain the least interesting take on this type of film. A film I’ve pretty much seen way too many times now. If Heretic was The Menu mixed with Blink Twice pretending to be even an ounce as interesting or original as Midsommar.
An example of an “indie psych-thriller” formula gone wrong in the worst ways possible. No stakes, no connection to the characters, no believable rhyme or reason for anything to happen. Ultimately…
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Mickey 17 2025
More evidence to the fact that if you let Robert Pattinson do a funny accent in a movie you end up with a fun movie.
I love the depth Bong Joon Ho creates in his films. Incredibly political, romantic, hilarious and physical. All in one scene a moment can go from a sweetly beautiful portrayal of unconditional love to deeply sardonic examination of the human condition.
Mark Ruffalo casually dropping the best Dumb Donald impression of the year was unexpected…
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The Brutalist 2024
A brutal depiction of the dehumanizing and trampling affect capitalism has on the human soul. How the ruling class disguise their disdain and intolerance for immigrants and the poor with transactional wealth and faux intellectualism. The holocaust could not break Laslo Toth's faith in his religion, or himself. America did it to him in less than a decade.
This film also reads to me as a personal experience from Corbet himself. The studio system, and the wealth that hangs over…
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Nosferatu 2024
Nosferatu in its concept as historical lore, treads in the puritanical fetishization of "evil". Eggers starts with the original folk history of vampirism and brings this once held credence to a highly anticipated fourth feature. I do no think this film disappoints in any regard. Robert Eggers continues to make niche films he finds interesting, in the same way Wes Anderson continues to do.
This film does not exist without a deep respect and admiration of Central European and Eastern…
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