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I'm Still Here 2024
Through “I’m Still Here,” director Walter Salles painstakingly shows through one incident of forced disappearance just how the Brazilian military dictatorship normalized terror. It’s instructive. I was took note of how the regime ensured that citizens not only acquiesced to their rule but also adapted to constant intrusion in their lives. The regime inflicted trauma that was to be forgotten, daring citizens to seek justice because it could cost them their lives. All of which we can apply when thinking about our present, and how humans resist in ways big and small.
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The Brutalist 2024
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" won the Best Picture Oscar in 2024, and its budget was around 100 million. Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist" is a front-runner for the Best Picture Oscar in 2025, and its budget was around 10 million. For a tenth of the budget, Corbet crafted a movie that feels nearly as epic. If anything, the audaciousness at least must be credited for giving moviegoers an event that was not part of some beloved franchise.
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The File on Thelma Jordon 1949
Robert Siodmak was a master of noir, and this is considered his last noir film.
The titular character is played by Barbara Stanwyck, and much like Double Indemnity, she owns every part of this role.
Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey) is a rather dopey alcoholic district attorney, who seems to have little compassion for his wife who loves him and is broken by the fact that Cleve is having an affair with Thelma.
Thelma pulls Cleve into her scheme to enrich…
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At Any Price 2012
The American Dream leads most Americans to believe they are entitled to prosperity and success. Some feel they are more entitled to that prosperity and success than others. Some also are more willing to toil for that prosperity and success. If one is handed down prosperity and success, there is an even greater weight to hold up on one’s shoulders, since failure can mean losing everything a family has built from years of hard work and sacrifice.
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