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Nickel Boys 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This movie deserved far more than just best picture and adapted screenplay noms.
The first person perspective, if done poorly, could easily have come across as gimmicky, but RaMell Ross executes it to perfection. I can’t imagine this story being told any other way.
This movie is a masterclass in giving you hope that things won’t play out the way you suspect before slamming you in the gut with the reality hammer. We’ve seen this story play out many times across…
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The Brutalist 2024
Me during the first half: Are the boys gonna kiss ✨😙✨😙✨😙✨
Me during the second half: 😨😟☹️
So much to think about with this one. The false promise of the American dream, the forced assimilation of immigrants and the concealing of their culture, the power of trauma, the inability of the privileged to care about your life unless it leads to the creation of something they deem beautiful or doing so improves their own image. The American dream is just…Translated from by -
