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The Zone of Interest 2023
The Zone of Interest tries to address one of the fundamental issues of cinema: how do we film something that is, or maybe should be, unfilmable? Glazer responds by denying and rejecting much of the traditional language of cinema. Nazism's roots in cinema are deep and insidious, Leni Riefenstahl is still broadly taught and recommended as a figure who is necessary to film history and form despite the content of her films. The aesthetics of Nazi Germany are referenced casually…
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JFK 1991
"Treason doth never prosper," wrote an English poet, "What's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
Whether or not you buy the film's version of events, it captures how you start to go insane when you look into Kennedy's assassination for more than 5 minutes. Pulls at dozens of different threads of the last 60 years of American history, every conspiracy and operation a test for what the American public will accept. Ultimately its only real…
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Wicked 2024
Both better and worse than I thought it would be. Doesn't make an attempt to tell a complete story at any point, every single plot and character arc is half finished at best and the whole thing feels incredibly rushed. Jon Chu is so lucky that the leads have great chemistry and put in career defining performances because he fails at directing even the most basic scenes and sequences. The set designers should form a picket line on the sequel…
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Napoleon 2023
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce
We need more biopics this mean spirited and contemptuous of the historical figures they depict. Ridley Scott has made no secret of the fact that he eschewed any claim to historical accuracy, and the end result is often less a film about Napoleon himself and more about how great men of…
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Rebel Ridge 2024
Starts off so well in the first act, but all the momentum it builds there gets ground down by its own plot and becomes more and more sympathetic to the cops as it goes own. Really disappointing! There's really so much promise in the first act, a criticism of civil asset forfeiture that understands all you need to do is show how it works to make people understand how blatantly corrupt the practice is. By the end it's the typical…
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