To preface anything I say next, I enjoyed Mickey 17 — it was entertaining, immersive, mildly funny at times. But I came in with high expectations, and ultimately felt its satire and criticism of our world today was pretty shallow, and lacking subtlety (especially Mark Ruffalo’s character). From a sci-fi perspective it felt similarly limited — a wasteland world with cute but dangerous roly-polys doesn’t exactly spur the imagination. But kudos to Bong-Joon Ho for choosing to make this, and WBD for throwing a ton of money at it — albeit strange moves on both sides.
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Civil War 2024
Defied my expectations — anxiety inducing — harrowing — didn’t hold back. Great cinematography, contrasting the horrors of war with the beauty of American nature (managed to make the side of the interstate beautiful, which I never thought possible). Every leg of their journey felt scarily familiar in the ways it warped the America I know. Jesse Plemons and the sequence he is in had me glued to my seat — an unbelievable piece of work, and easily the best…
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The Brutalist 2024
The best film of the year. Not to descend immediately into comparisons -- but this is everything I thought There Will Be Blood would look and feel like. Would be shocked if this didn't clean up in award season.
The trailer pretty aptly sums up the experience. Momentous. Colossal. Epic. Utterly ridiculous cinematography.
But if I could pick one word to describe it, it would be immersive. From the texture of the film itself, the screenplay, the scale of the…
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