There's a lot to like here but I hated the approach to the character. Martyr complex to the nth degree. He'll take all of the world's abuse and cruelty and still come out completely kind and ungrudging. It's so patronizing it almost strips him of humanity. The movie itself starts to become another freak show where John Merrick only exists to be gawked at to elicit an emotion from the viewer. The camera, the soundtrack, the script isn't there to…
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The Apprentice 2024
This strikes a perfect wavelength between capturing him as an actual person—not a caricature—while never pulling the punches on reflecting the bottomless evil he possesses and represents. I really think that of all the depictions, caricatures, and fictional iterations we've seen of Donald Trump, this will be the one that stands the test of time.
Jeremy Strong is also spellbinding in this. While Nathan Lane in Angels in America portrays Roy Cohn with a larger-than-life megalomaniacal intensity, Jeremy Strong plays…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Dune 2 is so concerned with creating a spectacle out of every moment that it rarely pauses to offer insight on anything it attempts to critique. The problem, ultimately, is that the movie is only interested in the Fremen as mythology, lore, and matters of plot, not as people with interiority of their own, or a complex culture with a real-life counterpart. This being a white savior story isn't so much about Paul Atreides rise to power, or his cautionary…
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Dream Scenario 2023
This felt like it was made by 4 different people and none of them could agree on what the movie should be:
The first one is trying to make a zany awkward comedy about the banality of anonymous life and pitfalls of academia.
The second is making a quasi-conservative, derivative, horror Tar-from-Wish about how woke-culture-is-bad and the-kids-are-all-snowflakes.
The third one wanted it (for some reason) to be a psycho-sexual story about infidelity.
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