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We Live in Time 2024
There are maybe 2 scenes that don’t revolve around talking about whether or not they want a child, trying to have a child and going through fertility issues, raising their child, or how their choices and health will effect their child. Other than their meet-cute (her hitting him with her car) and their first date, every conversation and scene following revolves around their child.
Although We Live in Time presents itself as being a romance film where we get to…
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Joyland 2022
TIFF 2022 - Film #4
So often if stories where a spouse cheats on their partner, the partner’s role in the story pushed to the sideline. This film gives almost equal care to both sides of the marriage. Both Haider and Mumtaz are unfulfilled and unhappy in their marriage. Haider as the unemployed husband accepts the first job offered to him due to societal and familial pressure as the “man of the family,” and later develops a relationship with another…
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American Son 2019
Toronto International Film Festival - Film #13
Before the screening, the director said, “I can’t believe we filmed this entire thing in just four and a half days.” After watching it, that statement was extremely believable. Everything’s shot in one location - one room specifically - but the shots are so bland and there's nothing on screen to draw you in. The characters are entirely one-note and are constantly repeating the same thing over and over again for the entire…
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The Spy Who Dumped Me 2018
The Spy Who Dumped Me has solidified the fact that I am not a fan of Kate McKinnon. I was fine with her in small doses, but as a co-lead, she becomes more overtly annoying. It’s the same character she plays in everything, a overly quirky person whose only characteristic is that she’s quirky and strange.
The film itself other than that, is just non-stop chase and action sequences that are unimpressive, unlike John Wick or other good action films…
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