Great microbudge thriller. Felt a little like all setup and no payoff but I appreciate the brevity and the ideas in play regardless, not to mention the admirable execution in many places.
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Subject to Review 2019
My kind of 30 for 30. Really fantastic, eerie meditation on instant replay in tennis, and film in general, and how these modes of capturing reality offer us only imperfect methods of determining objective truth, and even stranger, how these instruments change the thing they’re watching. Plays like Laura Poitras directing an adaptation of a David Foster Wallace essay. Incredible tone, and manages to offer a plain, easily understandable truth that we may already know, and yet haven't summoned to consciousness until watching it. Wonderfully uncanny, unsettling and strangely familiar. I loved it.
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The Holdovers 2023
Loved this.
Giamatti playing a part he was born for. Randolph nails it. The kid who plays Angus is believable if not particularly appealing; and yet it works for the character that this person does not wear his rebelliousness in a lovable way; his fuck-you attitude genuinely endangers him, and that provokes a real anxiety in the viewer that he won’t survive these ordeals. At times I thought he was just unlikeable, but I think that’s deliberate. Narratively, it just…
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