as thematically heavy-handed as it is narratively flat. first half promises to deliver what the second half can’t and, frankly, isn’t interested in doing. wish it treated both its audience and its own characters as a little smarter than it makes us/them out to be.
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The Iron Claw 2023
went into this thinking it was just another sports movie about geared up dude bros….,,, was not prepared to have my worst fears as an elder brother materialized on the screen for 2+ hrs
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Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022
not sure how to express it is to see such intelligent actors like swinton and elba be swooped up into this pitiful orientalist revivalism.
so. a white female scholar goes to the east and finds herself before a mystical being who, theoretically could have chosen any form, but chooses to present himself as a larger than life black being and proceeds to tell her the story of his life which essentially comes down to repeated imprisonment due to the hysterions…
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The Menu 2022
a rich person’s idea of a working-class revenge fantasy. not even one crumb of subtlety or nuance in a frankly distasteful messaging that masquerades as class commentary that just devolves into bland moralism that’s nothing but self-congratulatory and plain old boring.
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