IMO the best adaptations know what to grab from a source while leaning into techniques that only the new medium has to tell a story in its own way, and Nickel Boys is 100% an example. The visuals and almost poetic photography elevated every scene and (though I left wishing a handful of moments had the reaction shots and body language, in which dialogue & head turns alone took away some of the emotion for me) the first person pov does bring…
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I'm Still Here 2024
This is one that sticks with you. Beautiful movie all around, devastating but also an uplifting story of resilience in spite of brutality. Having known very little about Brazil’s history, finding out this is a true story afterward (adapted from a 2015 autobiography from Marcelo Rubens Paiva) was a gut punch and I will 100% be waiting on the English edition. The focus on the family here really hammered in the wide ripples of state violence through years and generations…
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Conclave 2024
The acting, the drama, the fashion, the crises of faith, the turtle, wow wow wow
I appreciate when a movie can suck me in with such simple conflicts that perfectly toe the line without going over the top.
It’s a political drama with great acting all around set in a papal conclave. What’s not to love?
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Emilia Pérez 2024
One star for being funny-bad for about 45 minutes
If Coralie Fargeat has a French wario it’s the guy who directed this bs
What was this about? No fleshed out characters, no arcs to speak of, the worst ending i’ve seen from a movie that seems to take itself seriously
I guess it’s a trans/mexico/cartel/love/family drama-musical that seems like it was written by someone who’s never heard a song before, but knew one trans person in college and had a…
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