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A Complete Unknown 2024
You could cynically call this a trite, by-the-numbers biopic and I would if this was about anyone else. But the fact is this is about my favourite era and my favourite songs of my favourite musician. I’m not made of stone.
Chalamet is as good as you’ve heard, and perhaps the film’s greatest strength is that neither his singing nor his slightly strained voice feel like a simple impression. It’s authentic. But as good as he is, I was more…
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Fireworks 1997
transcendentally good. also maybe the funniest film about depression ever made.
full of so many beautiful, idiosyncratic moments, spanning the range from the whimsical (but never twee) to the intensely violent. Horibe beginning his therapeutic journey as an artist by sitting on the shore, facing the sea and trying on a beret at a slant is this wonderful little scene - and it’s shot with the same level of verve and composure as a dude getting a chopstick suddenly rammed…
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Moonrise Kingdom 2012
Saw this as part of a double bill with Badlands and absolutely adored every second of it. So warm and empathetic and funny and loving. Maybe the best script ever written about being a weird child lost in a world of grown up, weirder children that just doesn’t make sense. “We’re in love. We just want to be together. What’s wrong with that?”
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American Psycho 2000
"My pain is sharp and constant, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape."
Christian Bale's performance, man. I see nothing but praise for it and yet I still find it to be criminally underappreciated. Bale's lethal, suave brilliance is what illuminates the intricately woven and blood-stained tapestry of sharp looks and sharper knives that is American Psycho. It is,…
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