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Perfect 1985
This movie has been compared to All the President’s Men, in terms of its journalistic self-seriousness. Which is scathing and kind of fair.
But the movie Perfect acts more like is actually Absence of Malice. But with the same version of Rolling Stone product placement that the WaPo gets in All the President’s Men. Which doesn’t make a shred of goddamned sense.
Also: Casting Jann Wenner to play himself but not is a choice and not a good one. (He’s not…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
A Complete Unknown is … okay. Paint-by-numbers early Dylan. Which isn’t necessarily a thing the universe didn’t need in it.
The problem is that basically everything this movie is trying to do has been done better elsewhere.
Scorsese’s No Direction Home tells this story more comprehensively.
And I mean, Pennebaker’s Dont Look Back tells a Dylan story from this same period and also happens to be not just one of the great music documentaries ever made, but also one of the great…
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Pocket Money 1972
I was charmed by this lazy little movie, but your mileage may vary. It feels to me like it might be one of the seeds from which the Coen bros. later grew.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020
Aaron Sorkin trying to direct an Oliver Stone film and a Frank Capra picture at the same time is not a good idea.
Aaron Sorkin writing a courtroom drama, on the other hand, is a very good idea.
This movie’s a bit of a mess, but it’s also a lot of fun to watch.
Someone, though, should be held in contempt for not giving Michael Keaton more screen time.
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