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A Complete Unknown 2024
In one year, Timmy has played two characters cast into unwanted roles and driven to an inhuman level of contempt for those who perceive them a savior: Muad’Dib and Bob Dylan.
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The Bikeriders 2023
After seeing The Bikeriders, I feel like just one of the Vandals sitting around at their picnics talking about their choppers.
Bikeriders doesn’t just run, it roars. Every little piece of machinery, all the imperfect repairs to make something go, the personalization and overemphasis and showmanship — on paper it shouldn’t work, but delicately put together on screen every bit of this movie roars to life just like that chopper that shouldn’t run.
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Babylon 2022
🍿 If La La Land is the dream, Babylon is the nightmare. And it’s a film that moves — at times with the violently passionate force of a derailed train — from feverish party dens to pathetic emotional prisons and back again.
Decadence and debauchery, revelry and recompense, it’s all there, as if we were traveling through (no, being propelled through, here comes that train again) so many levels of hell.
Prediction: it will divide opinion for now but go down as one of…
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Women Talking 2022
Not all novels need to be turned into movies. While the cast was beyond promising, the movie fails to maintain any narrative tension. Rooney Mara is in a different stratosphere, but even her performance isn’t enough to smooth out the rough and uneven edges of this adaptation.
Would like to see this as a stage adaptation where the central conversation and confined space would feel less like a limitation and more like the meeting place of thoughtfulness and imagination found in Toews’s novel.
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