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May December 2023
Todd Haynes is incapable of making anything less than an excellent movie. In what may have been my favorite movie of 2023, he crafted a luxuriously lurid melodrama that encourages us to wallow in our conflicted emotions.
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Irreversible 2002
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Irreversible wins my award for best movie that I will seldom recommend. And yet by writing this review and including a spoiler alert, I am implicitly recommending it to readers. This tension is why I have chosen to format this review as an extended content warning.
For many people, Irreversible will be a traumatic experience. Many, perhaps most, shouldn't watch it. The reverse-chronological story about two men seeking revenge against the man who assaulted their shared love interest includes two…
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Oppenheimer 2023
Upon rewatching Oppenheimer, I had a much more positive experience of the film, perhaps because I could identify, and therefore set aside, what I find so annoying about Christopher Nolan’s movies.
When I first saw it the Friday of Barbenheimer weekend, I did not have the blown-away reaction that nearly everyone else seemed to have. For me, Nolan’s characters speak in heavy handed Ted Talks, lecturing the audience on the major themes of the movie instead of speaking in natural…
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