Interesting times in streamingland: just when Netflix appeared terminally clapped out (and decided to charge us extra for the privilege of receiving its slop), Brits deprived of funding by the usual broadcast outlets show up with good scripts, good actors, and another, older, smarter model of making television. This one's livelier than I was expecting - if "Adolescence" operates in the zone of BBC or Channel 4 fare, "Toxic Town" is firmly, enthusiastically ITV primetime - powered by redoubtable work…
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Black Bag 2025
Soderbergh appears to have spent much of the last two decades watching even more TV than he's directed, and thinking about both what works there and what merits being restored to the bigger screen: the scenes in the therapist's office ensure "Black Bag" owes as much to HBO's "In Treatment" as it does to, say, "The Ipcress File". What he's pulled into shape here is a limber, double-jointed hybrid entertainment: a movie that feels as involved and detailed as any…
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Tenet 2020
The film that confirms Nolan no longer has any interest in human beings beyond assets on a poster or dots on a diagram... Visually and spiritually grey, it's too terse to relax and have a moment's fun with its premise; it's a caper for shut-ins, which may not stop it from becoming a runaway smash.
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Beginning 2020
Strikingly composed and rehearsed: it has to be, given the nature of some of those atrocities. Yet like a lot of films by young filmmakers who've seen a lot of films (and a lot of the New Extreme Cinema, in particular), it appears, scene by scene, utterly removed from life as it's actually experienced by real, non-movie, flesh-and-blood people; from first frame to last, we're watching terrible things happening to crash-test-dummy characters in one of those rigorously self-sealed art-movie vacuums.
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