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Parasite 2019
A transcendent crime story that balances the books on the inherently corrupt capitalist/class system. With elements that go back as far as Crime and Punishment and High and Low, this film uses a structural sequence similar to the old proverb, “For want of a nail the shoe was lost…” What is unique here is not the crime or the punishment, but how weird the karmic trip is to get to the punishment. The real crime will be if the Parasite script loses Best Screenplay to Marriage Story, 1917, or Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, which aren’t in the same league as this original work.
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Private Life 2018
a long series of awkward moments, each more unpleasant than the one before. Public embarrassment as art form.
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Sunset Boulevard 1950
SUNSET BOULEVARD begins as a pebble that causes a ripple and ends as a tidal wave that drowns all. This beautifully written drama starts with a screenwriter who is broke, proceeds with the inexorable logic of a Greek play, and ends with murder, madness and the indictment of all human beings. In this, like all great drama, SUNSET BOULEVARD presents a moral geometry that is stunning, not because it clearly defines good and evil or right and wrong, but because…
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Crazy Rich Asians 2018
this movie proves that Asians can execute the romantic comedy clichés and be obscenely rich, too. What progress.
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