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The Zone of Interest 2023
I forgot to post this at the time but I wrote some quick thoughts leaving the cinema after watching The Zone of Interest:
Appreciation for Mica Levi: This film is carried by it’s sound design and score. Right from the start there are boomings, cries, and other uncanny noises that seem to be happening somewhere not too far off, but they’re so faint that your brain is tricked into thinking that even the slightest impression of a noise might be…
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Saltburn 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Watching Saltburn was one of the most validating viewing experiences I’ve ever had. I absolutely loathed Promising Young Woman, a triggering and offensive film that masquerades as a badass rape-revenge story, only to inflict a series of horrific acts of violence against women, ending with the truly bewildering conclusion that victims of sexual assault are supported by the police. Saltburn is a film that initially appears to be about social disparity and the relationship between working-class Oliver and aristocratic Felix, but…
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Barbie 2023
I was fully invested in the hype surrounding this film, but actually watching it was like leaving Barbieland and entering the real world….only to find that Barbie is a half-baked, self-indulgent cheap-plastic-doll of a film, filled with SNL-level humour and transparently empty social commentary. The movie has nothing genuine to say about most of the things it signals. The discontinuation of Midge the pregnant Barbie is a running joke and nothing more. The same is true of the all-male exec…
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