It's far from John Carpenter's best, but the premise is fun and there are some genuinely unsettling effects. It gets an extra half-star for being one of the closest things to a Lovecraft movie we've got.
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Civil War 2024
Civil War is Alex Garland at his best. His ability to elevate a high-concept premise to a nuanced exploration of some aspect of the human condition is nearly unmatched ("nearly" because Denis Villeneuve exists). He's done it with Ex Machina, Annihilation, and now with Civil War, a movie that manages to transcend what could have been a pointless exercise in misery porn to become something incisive and timely. The script is excellent, foregoing preachy political statements for a complex and…
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Oppenheimer 2023
Oppenheimer is a film as rife with paradox as quantum mechanics. It's a sweeping and triumphant movie that crackles with palpable energy. The pomp and bluster of its breakneck script, sprawling setpieces, and temporal jumps threatens to steal the show.
And yet, it's the quiet moments of reflection, particularly in the third act, that most acutely convey the creeping horror beneath it all. Nolan's masterpiece (his best movie by a mile) manages to sometimes paint J. Robert Oppenheimer as a…
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