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The Brutalist 2024
Formally competent, but carries an air of unearned self importance throughout, finally culminating in that scene that results in a completely unsatisfying payoff. The first 30 mins to an hour really are so well directed and driven, even if they have nothing new or particularly interesting to say about the American immigrant, or more specifically white Jewish immigrant, experience. The weird, half hearted (lol say it wit yo chest) Zionisty shit doesn't aid in it's desperation to feel timeless, but…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Austin Butler does so much with pretty one-dimemsional characterization but other than that this is perfection in every way and it really
screams to be seen on the big screen. this is what film was striving for when first invented: spectacle and mythology reflected as something so close as to mirror our world perfectly yet still supremely alienTranslated from by -
Infinity Pool 2023
A decolonial masterpiece. It's rare to see a film made by a white person that captures the essence of the white psyche so essentially. Bubbling beneath the surface of "mundane" exploitative tourism lies the allure of full blown fascism: bestial, all consuming, relentless, and resolute in its ambition to consume not only the physical, but indeed destroy what little sense of self existed initially.
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