Insane performances, literally and figuratively. Hinging your movie on a dynamic this intriguing and dangerous is destined to be fantastic. Also it looked and felt like their world - the doll houses, the postcard colors, the deranged office design - and became so immersive on the smallest level.
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Mickey 17 2025
God I would do anything for the first 2/3 of this film - then, toe to toe with this decade’s best.
Happy to say I found none of this irritating. All of the performances were great. The visuals were beautiful. Not at all as blunt or obvious as people might say, there still are more interesting subtextual explorations here for the picking under the surface. I just wish it would have picked only one.
The plot revolving around the creepers…
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The Square 2017
It’s so over. We’re finished.
Even in the grand (and well deserved) moments of failure, he is wholly unable to repent, by nature of the food chain, and of his own tedious social rituals. Bleak and oppressively real.
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Joint Security Area 2000
History will remember them as enemies. Fantastic and actually kinda heartbreaking.
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Nosferatu 2024
Difficult as it is to admit that as a singular story, Eggers’ film mostly matches its source materials, I find it ridiculous to ignore the filmmaking that was done here. More strictly intense than terrifying (and with a more theatrical climax than I could have expected), but it’s an exchange I can embrace. The film is still so textural, so physical, and often violent in its cuts and sounds and hammering of dark and unsettling images. The changes in color…
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Longlegs 2024
A collection of symbols that never quite reach. Plays at a few too many familiar objects in standard forms, yet something still doesn’t seem to tie the whole equation together. Occasionally nukes the senses in the process, though. And while something greater was definitely forgone in the writing room, the textures and effects manage to form something unsettling that lingers with you. Nic Cage was insane. I must add to that effect, that even now I’m finding shapes in the…
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