Sexy thriller, surprisingly funny, politically a little odd if not totally apathetic. Marisa Abela perhaps the highlight of the supporting cast. “When are you gonna poly me, George?” is an insane thing to say at a tense dinner party with the sexy older couple where they’re both your boss. The thing about the film I’d have like to see interrogated more within the text is the surveillance state itself, but it’s not that sort of film.
Fassbender’s character here very…
A politically intriguing mystery set against one of the oldest sustained institutions in the western world. A drama about faith and power struggles that made me think deeply about how we let hierarchies entrench themselves in nominal pursuit of morality while calcifying into wretched, corrupt things.
Aesthetically I really enjoyed the color coordination, and the nods to the Eastern Catholic Churches; the ways we see difference and sameness held aside each other; thematically, the weight of being an administrator, the…
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Well shot. Good cinematography and still photography. Intense sound and music. All in the service of nothing. The more I think about it, the less I like it.
Committed performances undermined by at best pedestrian dialogue and thin characterization. The ability for actors to evoke emotions is repeatedly undercut by putting music in the place where silence or human noises like screams could be. I honestly find myself comparing it to a He Gets Us commercial at points. Every beautiful…
The Flash is a lot more entertaining than I expected it to be, but it still leans too hard on legacy. Further, it demonstrates a problem with all these multiverse movies in the ways they limit the infinite. Conceptually, alternate realities mean an infinite number of possibilities. But the plots of all these films lean on the idea of a certain right way things are supposed to go, using “fate” or, more baldly, “canon” as a story-bound explanation for studio…
