I haven't seen a Marvel movie since AVENGERS: ENDGAME, an ongoing personal protest that I've felt better and better about as the public has continued to turn against these movies. I was starting to believe I was never going to see another one of these, but then I was invited to see this with some friends at an appealing, low-impact 10:30am breakfast screening on the Saturday of a long weekend, so I thought, why not, let's check back in. When…
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Oppenheimer 2023
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An almost comically dense and complex biopic; 3 hours long but moves at an unrelentingly breakneck pace, with huge swaths of plot and dialogue and ideas zipping past you, around you, too fast to possibly catch them all, and with everything tangled up, of course, in Nolan's typical, at this point pathological, timeline-jumping.
A hard movie for me to rate, because if you take out and look at ANY 5-10 minute sequence in the movie, and watch it as a…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
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A three and a half hour movie that almost immediately demands a second viewing, both due to the vast sprawl of the story, and the intense, almost confrontational ambiguity at its center. It certainly isn't perfect, and I wasn't sure what rating I would give it while I was watching. But, just on the drive home I could already feel it growing in my estimation, and I can tell it's going to burrow into me in a way that few…
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