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The Delinquents 2023
Incarceration and freedom are only mindsets, and so the only thing that matters is how you choose to navigate and endure them. This brilliant Cannes favorite is shot and acted with great care and beauty, with respect to the neorealist masterpieces that preceded it, yet not without its own measure of voice and originality. Do not shy from its length or subtitles (turn them off if you speak any derivative of Spanish)--once you are immersed into the plot, the characters, the landscape, and the cityscape, time and language are no longer constructs. What a great film!
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A Real Pain 2024
The last minute of this film reveals everything, as to the ends of so many films these days . . . as it should be. Though Eisenberg treads no new ground here, and shoving the strained metaphor title aside, the pilgrimage is certainly meaningful for these cousin characters--and for us--in a deep, mysterious vein of human frailty and motivation for living. Culkin was Culkin, and that was great, though Eisenberg was Eisenberg and was just as great. See it and tell me to give it another star. I almost did, but my system does not allow for halves. Worth the watch for sure.
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Anora 2024
An incredible work of art that has everything you could ever expect from a great film . . . and says everything you would ever need to know about human connections and the primal need to be loved. Some will say that the red motif has been used many times in the past (The French Connection, House of Games, American Beauty, just to name a few) and brings nothing new to the table. I would say to them that a…
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Civil War 2024
"Would you photograph that moment if I got shot?
What do you think?"
This clever core of Civil War's central metaphor shows promise amid a grating, acrid, unnerving musical score that will set you at unrest and irritation from the onset of a meandering, haphazard film that tapers off into a quagmire of formulaic character development, telegraphed plot devices, and multiple, overt political agendas.
Too bad.
Our young wide-eyed neophyte journalist is terribly miswritten as too young, too naive, hence…
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