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Nickel Boys 2024
fascinating adaptation of a harrowing novel. by weaving the narrative with archival footage and photography, ross places the dialogue between past and present and fiction and reality at the center of the work.
there’s moments when the pov-filming is a bit clunky, and there’s moments when it works unimaginably well. the technique allows for a complete immersion in the sensations of the POV characters — what they see, hear, feel — and in the moments of extreme fear, discomfort, or…
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Longlegs 2024
I’m impressed by how vacuous this movie is. There is nothing here other than some admittedly wonderful stylistic flairs. The film is washed in sepia, muted browns and greys set against stark whites, and when blood spatters across the floor and the snow and the people, it is ablaze. there is a creeping dread present throughout the entire film, with seemingly innocuous shadows morphing into ghosts and devils just out of focus, gravelly voices manipulated into something inhuman and terrifying,…
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The Boys in the Boat 2023
legit one of the worst movies ive ever seen — the final sequence ends with an exchange between a grandchild and an elderly version of what can charitably be called the “main character”:
child: pa, what was it like to row 8 man crew?
mc: 8 men? no, we were one.
note that in order to make this hideously saccharine & trite exchange work, “crew” is lengthened to the far clunkier “8 man crew”, the only time in the film the…
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