The full range of emotion is experienced here; beautifully shot & formally composed but somehow also very organic; wonderful jazzy score; heartwarming & heartbreaking. One of my favorite movies.
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Black Bag 2025
A slick & enjoyable film whose overt artifice prevents it from rising to the heights of the clockwork paranoia of apogean spy thrillers such as Tinker Tailor or Infernal Affairs. It's all quite pretty but surface level, & we're never completely lost into the murky depths. The Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? bits are a nice wrinkle.
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The Brutalist 2024
More handjobs than I would have expected, but given their preponderance in Burning and The Favourite also, maybe that's just the way prestige cinema is headed.
The Brutalist (like Tár) feels like the kind of movie that just isn't made anymore—sweeping but intimate, full of big ideas, uncompromising visions, and folly (usually born from pride). Beautiful to look at, wonderful to listen to, and intensely acted. I had the mistaken thought that The Brutalist was a big biopic; that it…
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
My friend, who is a lawyer, leaned over to me during the courtroom scene, when Arthur Fleck is allowed to dress up as the Joker, and whispered, "They would never allow that."
Outside the theater, a woman came up to us and introduced herself. "I think that was 10/10, the best movie in a decade."
Hate to admit it, but I loved Joker: Folie á Deux. Like really loved it. I didn't know what to expect but I love that…
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